{"id":1678,"date":"2013-05-31T01:14:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T01:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2017-07-11T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T20:43:08","slug":"notes-to-the-ntsb-by-vicki-iorio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/notes-to-the-ntsb-by-vicki-iorio\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes to the NTSB by Vicki Iorio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"kaeti\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

Notes to the NTSB<\/h1>\n

by Vicki Iorio<\/p>\n

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When the plane crashes
\nI land
\nin my mother’s kitchen<\/p>\n

Ma, at the sink
\nshifts flour for a yellow cake
\nto match our yellow curtains<\/p>\n

Dinner is in the oven<\/p>\n

She is not surprised to see me
\nor the nose of the plane
\ncartooning our ceiling<\/p>\n

Sitting at the warped
\nfomica table I do
\nlong division<\/p>\n

Perpetual transistor radio
\nplays Paul Anka
\nConnie Francis
\ntime-lines to the the Kennedy Assassination
\nFreedom Marches
\nThe first blackout
\nThe second blackout
\n911<\/p>\n

and the shootings
\nthe shootings
\nthe shootings<\/p>\n

Ma faces the sink
\nI watch her back and know
\nwhich apron she wears
\nby the apron strings:
\nconsciousness-raising apron
\nburning bra on her chest<\/p>\n

Scrabble apron
\nbib stitched with a board winning bingo<\/p>\n

There is the crackle of roast beef cooking
\nGastric temptation of searing fat
\nThe old boil of vegetables<\/p>\n

I find home<\/p>\n

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\nVicki Iorio, a native Long Islander is a graduate of Hofstra University. Vicki’s poetry has been published in the San Pedro Review, hell strung and crooked, Uphook Press, Great Weather for Media, Tattoosday, Long Island Quarterly, Toward Forgiveness Anthology, Whispers and Shouts, Boone Dock Review, Performance Poets Literary Review, Bards Annual and Spillway<\/p>\n

This past spring, Vicki published her first full length poetry collection, Poems from the Dirty Couch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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