Bergen County Writers' Workshop

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North Jersey writers' workshop for authors to read, share, and get help with writing, illustration, publishing, and other topics

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Meetup: Bergen County Writers' Workshop

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Location: Manhattan Bagel, Englewood NJ, 07631

Time: Sundays @ 4:00

addicts

By: Renee Dwyer

with sundered skulls we skittered through the streets

damp with neon closer to the edges where the lights fell off

our red-rimmed eyes like margarita glasses dipped in cayenne pepper

i turned to you and asked how many hearts have gone up our noses

you laughed with star-flash teeth and had yourself another

the modern alchemist

By: Renee Dwyer

in the lab there are chlorides and nitrates, acids and hydroxides

memory carefully measured in vials, heartache in a flask

something unidentifiable simmering on a burner about to boil over

the alchemist looks for gold to show from within the iron

she looks for gold with her hands full of loose change accumulated

from staggered breath through a payphone receiver though her trade

becomes as obsolete as those payphones themselves. she mixes chemicals

to provoke reactions, acute spikings of words and movement to create

tension and explosion, flexing her veins and baring her arteries to

acid emulsion and light-flecked questions of why everyone always leaves

and how can she change, how can she change. by her bedside she keeps

the ocean in a bottle and goes to sleep with salt on her lips, but

you can’t make love by mixing metals and the lead in her chest will

eventually oxidize and grow heavier still.