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David Michael Wolach
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THE ONTOLOGY OF AN UGLY BEAUTIFUL MORNING
So predictably had her life slipped into a
typical
passing of days that she thought of waking
her husband
only to slap him for not warning her ahead
of time.
This would be a coded request for
forgiveness. But as
he slept like the dead she took off her
socks and
underwear, stood, and examined herself in
the pilfered
glass. The mirror hid nothing: it spoke of
misdeeds,
of wrongdoing and the necessity of anger.
She had
sobbed quietly until sunup, nonetheless
savoring,
somehow, the activity of the night. Of what
she took
from him, and of what she left behind.
David Michael Wolach teaches philosophy and
literature at The Evergreen State College in
Olympia, Washington. Prior to coming to
Evergreen Wolach lived in New York City for
ten years, teaching at Barnard College and
serving as a union organizer for the United
Auto Workers. A new writer, Wolach's essays,
fiction, and poetry have appeared or will
appear in
various publications this year, including
The Tipton Poetry Journal, Poetry Midwest,
Heartlands Magazine, and Storyglossia.
Wolach, winner of a Broadside Press Poets
Award and a Peralta Press Editor's Prize, is
also one of the managing editors of
Wheelhouse Magazine.
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