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Swap Meet Photograph Caroline Gerardo copyright © 2012

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What amount will secure a soul?

Forgiveness slips on the laminate.

You return to life a Victorian buggy,

clattering, passionate and nostrils wide.

"Love does not end even in death,

only becomes-"

"Becomes what?" You ask.

I am silent, throat frozen.

I know my own truth,

 but need to do

more backbends.

I read this poster where

three Marines died after leaving

a Golden Lantern neighborhood bar.

Jeremiah Callahan was twenty-three.

Christopher Arzola was twenty-one.

Jason Chleborad was twenty-two.

Please send their families the money.

Certitude hearts who loved, but

never had opportunity to marry.

Heroes sing from the diaphram.

The vibration trembles my lips.

Switch places, go back in time

Swap for a different future.

Shrine to the Fallen Three on Golden Lantern Now Removed Photograph Caroline Gerardo © copyright reserved

Great Books to Read

Promoting authors work I invite you to please post the following information in the comments section below.

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Book Title:
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(elizabeth I posted yours to make the link to eawestwriting flow)
1.
Elizabeth Ann West
 CANCELLED
Contemporary Fiction/Romantic PG-13 (2 f words, fade to black lovemaking scenes, adult themes) http://eawestwriting.com/books

How do you know when the drama is worth it? Robotics engineer, Johnathan Michaels has loved his business partner, Alexis Rodriguez for... well he's not sure exactly when but he knows she is the perfect woman. Smart, sexy, and finally single, Johnathan wins her over while saving their company's first multi-million dollar contract. Life is heading towards a storybook ending when a previous one-night stand returns his shirt. Pregnant. And it's his. Suddenly Johnathan finds himself struggling to keep up at work, keep his new girlfriend happy, and deal with his impending fatherhood. Exactly when is the right time to tell your future wife you're having a baby....with another woman? CANCELLED is a 75,000 word contemporary romance from a male POV that breaks the normal genre rules and gives a on Great Books to Read

Emily Dickinson Prize Star

Submitting to the Emily Dickinson prize today.
Stuck on which poems to include,
and their format choices are so limited.
Only word or rich text.
I will not be able to add digital video.
Nothing movie- star glamorous.
Perhaps it is too old fashioned for this girl?

Do I send written word that neatly fits on cream colored stock?

Are they looking for Kyrielle Sonnets with my idiosyncratic syntax?

Blair and I found two star fish on our walk yesterday.
The recent swell stole the sand off Strands Beach
 leaving creatures who I thought gone from my life, exposed.

Reminiscent raw memories of you flooded up with the crazy star.

Looking down pulsing with light,
his spines are desguised as pebbles,
and bits of Ty Nant blue glass now sanded by the sea.
The Victorians employed blue glass to indicate poison inside.

If Emily met you
(if you venture into her garden,
could she travel to Gloucester to experience the coast?)
would she recognize your venom?


I buried him in the sand and tide to protect other hearts.

"Star poison" image and words copyright © 2012 Caroline Gerardo

Blog Hop Prizes

MORE PRIZES AS THE HOP CLOSES???
"LOONEY BOY" ( quote from my novel The Lucky Boy when this mean girl pokes him when he is down)

I love a prize don't you?

#4 Signed copies of these books:
the Insiders by J. Minter
Restless by Rich Wallace
Atonement by Ian MCEwan
Mockingbird by Charles Bukowski

(fortunately or unfortunatley the above books have notes addressed to my name. Notably two have rather R rated comments which  parallels the Naughty Theme. I could have broken out some of the hundreds of signed poetry books, but I tried to go more popular books)


There is a first time for everything. This is my first blog hop. I joined http://www.closeencountersofthenightkind.blosgpot.com/ in this hop because my novel, The Lucky Boy is a love story. The main character, Seth does some very bad things in this story in the name of love.


This hop is running through Valentines Day and I am offering some special prizes just for the asking:

1. Package of sweet pea seeds to plant in your garden or a pot. The heady smell of this perfume will knock you over.
  ( 5 packs are available)
2. 16 Valentines cards especially for your Mother (WHY you ask? Because in the novel, The Lucky Boy this 16 year old boy has a horrible dysfunctional mother. You will have enough cards to get you through the next years.

3. Free ecopy of The Lucky Boy plus these silvery cold hearts ( they open up like ornaments) and the mug with notes and a ten dollar bill.
It's not sultry but it's cash.
To win one of my three prizes tweet:" I want to read The Lucky Boy @cgbarbeau ", or" I want to own The Lucky Boy @cgbarbeau"
and you will likely win a prize.  Twenty prizes available - first come first served. Random yadda yadda legalese because this is just a silly little prize, O.K.?

Valentine Sunshine

I sent you glorious sunflowers, wider than Van Gogh's breath.
Your soul flys gloating on wings of a dandelion seed umbrella.
Your torso shades the world bringing the color of Greek sunlight.
You're young without joints, debt to the IRS, or worry in the sternum.

Dance as a prickleypear, lemon thorn, and mace thistle protect your garden.
Sing from inside the hands of the hawthorne and let me hear you.
God, sing louder, please.
Where is your amplifier for fun?
We need a little Hallmark, Danny Hall,
corny and full of doe eyed characters, please.


Our homes are happy, we have been fed love and it is all good.

I'm reading another fortune made of heavely sugar.
Next one says to lay off necco candies or fear the drop.