Two Poems, Jack Conway


Emancipation  Proclamation

We
be
free.
See? 

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Her Body Like a Bell 

Her body like a bell
hangs over me
sweaty and hot. 
So much has come and gone
and still 
the clang. 

Jack Conway’s newest book of poetry, Life Sentences, was published in 2002 by North Country Press. He is a former adjunct professor at Boston University and Fisher College.