Ruth Madievsky

Originally from Kishinev, Moldova, Ruth Madievsky lives and writes in Los Angeles. Her poetry chapbook, Box of Shadows, was the runner-up in the 2014 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, Harpur Palate, RHINO, and elsewhere.

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Shadowboxing by Ruth Madievsky

This entry was posted in Poetry TQ5 Poetry Contest and tagged Ruth Madievsky on October 14, 2014 by admin

  To let grief ride my blood like a school bus. To say tongue but mean staircase. To wonder how many times the suitcase inside me can open and shut. What it would take to shatter a wine glass in my hand. To want desperately to be queen of something. […]

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Box of Shadows by Ruth Madievsky

This entry was posted in Poetry TQ5 Poetry Contest and tagged Ruth Madievsky on October 14, 2014 by admin

  I want you to imagine a box. Inside the box, the shadow of the hospital   where you were sloughed from your mother like a grape. And before that,   before skin and seed— the shadow of your father’s first kiss,   of mornings he woke feeling like a […]

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