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  Claudia Gary-Annis is a poet, editor, freelance writer, and composer of chamber music and art songs. Her first full-length collection, "Humor Me," was published in 2006 by David Robert Books. Two chapbooks, published earlier, are "Schadenfreud(e) and Other Occupational Hazards" (Musings Press, 2004) and "Ripples in the Fabric" (Somers Rocks Press, 1996). Her poems have appeared in Light, The Formalist, Orbis (U.K.), Edge City Review, Pivot, Sparrow, The Lyric, Medicinal Purposes, Neovictorian/Cochlea, and other journals as well as several anthologies, Web journals, newsletters and newspapers. She has given readings and concerts in many east coast cities and has taught workshops for adults and children. Former poetry editor of Edge City Review and founding editor-publisher of Musings from Northern Virginia, she is currently northern regional vice president of the Poetry Society of Virginia and senior editor of Vietnam Magazine. She lives in Northern Virginia. More information, reviews, and poems can be found through her Web site at www.claudiagary.com.  


Summer 2007

Table of Contents - Vol. III, No. 2

Poetry    Translations    Fiction    Book Notes & Reviews

 

Claudia Gary-Annis

 

Driving in Tandem

He sped out of her sight numerous times
and left his headlights off in gushing rain.
She wonders how she could have been amused
at flights from visibility.

He too has doubts: Can't she follow more closely,
stay truer to the signals they've devised?
Their conversation shifts down into words,
then quickly upshifts, merges back

into the darkened lane where they can hear
droplets percussing onto roofs and windshields.
They grip the steering wheels. Once more their tires
spin puddles into mist.

 

© Claudia Gary-Annis

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