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    Imaginary Roads
    Imaginary Roads
    Imaginary Roads
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    Imaginary Roads

    By Reza

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    Within the boundaries of right and wrong, judgment and condemnation, adventure and escapism, we all have a place we need to find so as not to be captured by anothers limited image of us. Author Reza is marking her own pageher temporary place where she stops, pauses, and ruminates. Mark on the Road presents a collection of her poetry that is emotionally introspective. Even when the moments of rumination cease, there are dark spaces within the soul where even the self cannot hide; this is where tangled words creep inside the vines of a sleeping poetic consciousness.

    Cultural Weight
    O my country! How bitterly now I remember you!
    I love my country toonext after all my children.

    Euripides

    Id like to say Im one of those
    Who knows so much about my culture
    Yet I carry it like a globe across my shoulders
    Wearing down on my chest,
    Until I breathe the breath of continents.
    Id like to know clever ways
    Of decoding its flaws and assumptions in words
    Or that Im part of some lofty group condemned,
    And then lauded for not having a home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJun 9, 2011
    ISBN9781462011315
    Imaginary Roads
    Author

    Reza

    Reza holds a PhD in English and American Literature from the University of Houston and a master’s degree in curriculum from Illinois State University. She teaches senior English at Cypress Falls High School; she also writes short stories, poems, and personal essays. She currently lives in Houston, Texas.

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      Imaginary Roads - Reza

      IMAGINARY ROADS

      Reza

      iUniverse, Inc.

      Bloomington

      Imaginary Roads

      Copyright © 2011 by Reza

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4620-1132-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4620-1131-5 (e)

      Printed in the United States of America

      iUniverse rev. date: 06/03/2011

      Contents

      PART 1

      Those Two

      Cultural Weight

      Ego

      Falling

      Dangerous

      Houston Drivers

      PART 2

      On Cowboys

      Clean Rooms

      Before the Storm

      Here Are New Homes

      Wasted Field in Kabul

      PART 3

      My Daughter’s Bears

      Passive-Aggressive Love Song to My Piece of Heaven

      Una Virgen Piña Colada, Por Favor

      Pound of Flesh

      Continental Dream

      Lydowning

      Selective Memory

      Weather’s Weed

      Yellow Room

      Little Boy

      Snow Celebration

      The Sun Goes Down

      Not Knowing

      Someday

      One Night

      PART 4

      Bipolar Dreams

      My Own Jekyll and Hyde

      Conroe, Del Lago

      Any Enemies Within?

      A Battle

      Observing Chivalry

      Walking Thought

      PART 5

      Cold in the Sun

      Paradox of Selfhood

      On Poetry

      Wolphin

      A Yorkshire Rain

      Ooh, Billy Collins!

      The Alpha Male Language Poets

      When I Am Gone

      PART 1

      Those Two

      For H. and H. K.

      They have a code of their own;

      Words never pertain to them.

      They carry on as if they live in a cryptic world

      Where love is decoded through signs along the road.

      Together they travel, stopping along the inns

      of national highways.

      They share their silence in the car

      Through darkness like strangers

      And live in the moment by

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