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Marie Ponsot

Poetry

Autumn 1992

Pourriture Noble

By Marie Ponsot

a moral tale, for: Sauternes, the fungus cenaria, and the wild old Never prophesy. You can’t. So don’t try. Lust, pride, and lethargy may cause us misery or bliss. The […]

Poetry

Summer 1991

All Wet

By Marie Ponsot

Underwater, keeled in seas, zinc the sacrificial anode gives electrons up to save the sunk hull from salt. The carving of salt water skirls out beacheswhere each wave fall can […]