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Pif Magazine
ISSN: 1094-2726

Published by:
Pif, LLC
PMB 248
4820 Yelm Hwy SE
Suite B
Lacey, WA 98503-4903

PAST POETRY	MORE POETRY

Your skin is translucent in the still air of this room. Clay is prerogative; eyes are derivative. We live in the shadows of immense hands like death that will take our sex away. Bridal days and wedding nights of grace and youth and doors opening in women. Music is a child of the grass and teaches us the cost of frostbite. We can't separate the misunderstandings or wash dishes in the music-box. We talk too much and spend the word on our burning hands. A cinder of a joke catches in our throat and you laugh to hold onto the hurrying waters. A fern is a fan that resembles a rainbow and the last ghosts of Indians are asking for food in the amber waves of dying grain.

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Daniela Gioseffi is author of nine books of poetry and prose from major, alternative and university presses. Women on War won the 1990 American Book Award. On Prejudice: A Global Perspective won a grant award from The Ploughshares Fund World Peace Foundation. Her collections of poems are World Wounds & Water Flowers and Eggs in the Lake

Gioseffi has published her work in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, among them The Paris Review, The Nation, Chelsea, and MS.

She a member of The National Book Critics Circle and edits Wise Women's Web a magazine of literature and graphics. Her recent book of stories & novella from Avisson Press, Greensboro, NC. 1997, is titled In Bed with the Exotic Enemy.