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Geri Digiorno
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Geri Digiorno is founder and director of the Petaluma Poetry Walk, going into its 14th year, and Poet Laureate of Sonoma County (20062007). She is author of White Lipstick (Red Hen Press, 2005) and I'm Tap Dancing (Norton Coker Press, 2007). Her poetry credits include Paterson Literary Review, Bogg, Tomcat, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, 33 Poetry Review, Cyanosis, Noe Valley Voice, Lips, North Coast Review, and Sonoma Mandala.
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M'z D's
In M'z D's gym class
at James lick Jr. High
Jerry Flurry was long and tall
wore her hair
in a blond pump-up pompadour
and carried a switchblade knife
her body covered with names of boys
etched into her arms and thighs
like an ancient war goddess
with a bow and arrow
and one breast
her back swayed
her legs tan
in silver high-top tennis shoes
strutting her stuff
in her dark blue uniform
the teachers moved aside
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