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"Terrible to dress in the clothes
of a period that must end."--Frank Bidart 

"You must remember that certain things die out for a while/ so they can be remembered with affection later on." --John Ashbery

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It was the year of the putti. 

2/7/2015

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So silly - but so rosy and chubby, so adorable and cheery, you couldn’t stay mad or sad for long when you saw them.  Sure, lemon-suckers howled that having naked baby boys flying around the house was immoral, a bad example for the kids, blah blah, but people camped out for days outside Macy’s to be first to get them.  A lot of the wings got crumpled in the crush, though, and you couldn’t return them, and really, what do you do with a broken cherub?  The ads said they “live on love” so you wouldn’t have to feed them, but most of them died anyway like Easter chicks, and Sanitation wouldn’t take them, so if you didn’t have a backyard, all you could do was slink to the river after dark, which was kind of bleak, and the whole thing soon died out.  I’ve still got a couple up in the closet – they’re bound to come back in, like shoulder pads.  When they do, I’m ready.

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Suzanne  Osborne

After an early career in theater and a stint in academia studying comparative literature and teaching literature and German, Suzanne  Osborne now lives in Queens, NY, and writes poetry when she is not working as a legal secretary.  Her work has appeared in Alimentum and Ping Pong.


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    Hi. I'm Joanna Fuhrman. This is a prose poetry/flash fiction blog in conversation with my  serial prose poem "The Year of Yellow Butterflies" (The Year Of Yellow Butterflies, Hanging Loose Press 2015). I had fun writing these poems about fads and trends from imaginary pasts. If you would like to add your own section, write me and I can post it (along with a short bio). Start with "It was the year...."  
    "In this extraordinary book, Fuhrman seamlessly oscillates between illusion and reality, childhood and maturity, the animal kingdom (a "babbling...walrus," a "creaky bird," a "bunny rabbit") and technology ("a baby's rebooted brains," "Virgil's internet").  She gives new life to the prose poem.  The Year of Yellow Butterflies is killer--not only Fuhrman's best book to date, but her most poignant.  "--Noelle Kocot

    "With the impish charm of an illusionist and the dazzling patter of a tummler in a Borscht Belt resort, Joanna Fuhrman suspends our expectations in The Year of Yellow Butterflies, sending us head over heels into zones of cosmic and technological bafflement and sudden parabolic grief....in this book full of brilliant predicaments and pleasures."—Rachel Loden
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