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Selected Works of Marianne Rogoff
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La Gruta
Boston Literary Magazine (2006)
  • Marianne Rogoff, Department of Literature and Languages, Dominican University of California
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Abstract
"An ordinary night at La Gruta. Hot water dispels tension, possibilities float around my soft flesh, hard heart. Woman in her forties. Betrayed wife. Swims in mist under star-strewn Mexican sky. Again, another starry night and demons banish, mourning ceases, I breathe and swim through air, free the beastly beating broke-down heart. Under moonlight, seven nights the pool shimmers, light visible, then the tunnel, hotter, long and tight…. "
Keywords
  • Poetry,
  • short fiction
Disciplines
Publication Date
2006
Citation Information
Marianne Rogoff. "La Gruta" Boston Literary Magazine (2006)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/marianne-rogoff/21/