{"id":7641,"date":"2021-03-23T12:17:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=7641"},"modified":"2021-03-23T12:19:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:19:05","slug":"three-strikes-in-london-a-poem-by-megan-denese-mealor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/three-strikes-in-london-a-poem-by-megan-denese-mealor\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Strikes in London A Poem by Megan Denese Mealor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We spent our thunder in East End stagger,<\/p>\n

imbibing jellied eels sharked from shadows <\/p>\n

underlying Tower Bridge stained Silver Jubilee.<\/p>\n

Irish weavers once spilled their angels on those docks;<\/p>\n

Leather Apron boiled fetid fog, tempested theists. <\/p>\n

You induced me along gashes of geodesic graffiti<\/p>\n

enlivening crooked curry houses, inner city chattel,<\/p>\n

fidgety railway bridge partitions retailing<\/p>\n

kitschy orchards, botanic rainboots<\/p>\n

in the shambolic underpass.<\/p>\n

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In a charismatic kilt and Victorian tourmaline,<\/p>\n

I descended brick basement bookshops, <\/p>\n

jubilating in the heirloom halo,<\/p>\n

thumbprint burning your impassive palm.<\/p>\n

Cancan robots, unbaptized bohemian Bentleys<\/p>\n

depicted the dilettantish din borderless<\/p>\n

throughout enameled back alleys.<\/p>\n

Electrified with Rhubarb Sours and feeling alien,<\/p>\n

I disoriented your voltage in a biting brasserie<\/p>\n

swirling with coriander, chilies, cardamom.<\/p>\n

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The last time you lost me in Shoreditch,<\/p>\n

I was procuring bouquets of Harper\u2019s Bazaar,<\/em><\/p>\n

pocketing hints of old-world Chanel,<\/p>\n

lacing Queensbridge Road into my hue.<\/p>\n

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(Originally published in The Ministry of Poetic Affairs<\/em>, April 2017)
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\nMegan Denese Mealor is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She has authored three full-length poetry collections: Bipolar Lexicon<\/em> (Unsolicited Press), Blatherskite<\/em> (Clare Songbirds), and A Mourning Dove’s Wishbone<\/em>. Her writing has appeared worldwide in such publications as Digital Americana, Gone Lawn, The Furious Gazelle, Maudlin House,<\/em> and Black Dog Review.<\/em> Diagnosed with bipolar disorder in her teens, Megan’s main mission as a writer is to inspire others feeling stigmatized for their mental health. She lives in Jacksonville, Florida with her husband Tony, son Jesse, who was diagnosed with autism at age three, and their sovereign cats Trigger and Lulu. Megan enjoys astrology, alligator farms, painting, photography, yoga, and volunteering at humane societies and food banks.
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\nRobin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times<\/a> at Artvilla.com<\/a> ; his publications include
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\nAll the Babble of the Souk<\/em> <\/a>, Cartoon Molecules<\/em>, Next Arrivals<\/em> and Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems<\/em>, collected poems, as well as translation of Guadalupe Grande\u00b4s La llave de niebla, as Key of Mist<\/em> <\/a> and the recently published Tesserae<\/em> <\/a> <\/u>, a translation of Carmen Crespo\u00b4s Teselas.
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\nYou may visit Aquillrelle.com\/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop <\/a>about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)<\/a><\/p>\n

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