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February. 2009:
Jerry Judge
| 9 Poems
works
1. Rhythm
2. Writing at the Waffle House
3. 27 Million Shoes
4. The Hiding Game
5. Translation
6. Absent Without Leave
7. December 7, 1996
8. My Only Groupie Attacked by Vicious Garage Door
9. The Last Poem
bio

Jerry Judge is the author of six collections of poetry. His latest works are Luna Moth (2008 – Finishing Line Press) and Outlaw Poet (Pudding House – 2008). His poems have been published in several anthologies and a variety of journals including New York Quarterly, Pudding, Main Street Rag, Nerve Cowboy, Poetry Depth Quarterly, American Tanka, Chiron Review and Writer’s Journal. He is a former President of the Greater Cincinnati Writers’ League, and he’s active in writing events around the region. He works for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati and lives in Cincinnati with a gorgeous wife, three royal cats and one rambunctious dog. He has two grown sons – Nick, a firefighter/medic, and Devin, a student at Ohio State University.

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Translation
           for Michele

I read two translations
of the same Pablo Neruda poem
with even different titles.

How do I know how you translate
me?  When I say I love you, do you hear
how I revere you for saving me

from this city’s piranha men
and cobra women who fasten
teeth and fangs into my darker soul?