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    Love Life: Poems
    Love Life: Poems
    Love Life: Poems
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    Love Life: Poems

    By Mario Milosevic

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    Love is that sobering and paradoxical state of being in which one’s own happiness depends upon the welfare of another. The author’s third volume of poetry examines love in its many guises: familial, romantic, erotic, and Platonic.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreen Snake Publishing
    Release dateDec 23, 2010
    ISBN9781458096890
    Love Life: Poems
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    Mario Milosevic

    Mario Milosevic was born in a refugee camp in Italy, grew up in Canada, and holds a degree in philosophy and mathematics from the University of Waterloo. He now lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, fellow writer Kim Antieau. His poems, stories, and novels have appeared in many venues, both print and online.

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      Book preview

      Love Life - Mario Milosevic

      Preliminary

      Observations

      Miners

      My father went underground

      everyday and clawed

      at the guts of the Earth,

      sending up chunks of rock

      like a rescuer retrieving

      body parts after a disaster.

      My mother worked hard

      finding ways to not think

      about what fate

      might befall him under

      all those tons of ore.

      He would sometimes return home

      with black smudges on his

      cheek or forehead, grimy

      kisses of ancient rock.

      My mother would reach up

      and brush them away

      and he’d smile. See,

      he would say, I always

      come back to you.

      Resisting the Patriarchy

      It’s nineteen seventy.

      I’m twelve.

      My mother and I take a train

      across Canada to visit her

      side of the family for the

      first time since I was born.

      The significance of this fact

      escapes me at the time.

      Our trip reprises our life

      when I was a baby, when

      for two years it was just

      my mother and me.

      Us against the world.

      We arrive in Edmonton.

      I meet uncles and aunts

      and cousins I did not know

      existed. I’m too young to

      understand their reactions

      to me. Too young to see how

      some of them pull away,

      leave the room, look over

      my head. Too young to

      understand that they know

      I’m the son of an independent

      woman who chose her own

      way and left her home in the

      old country to live her life

      on her terms. Too young to

      understand, but not too

      young to see

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