Patty Mooney

COUP

The Gangtok Marathon is canceled. 
Management advises us not to cycle or videotape. 
A coup impels us to stay inside
our rooms at the Nor-Khill Hotel drinking
hot chocolate spiked with Fireball brandy.
From the window Slag shoots footage
of the military camp next door. 
A police officer was stabbed to death last night
while Snow Leopard and Yak
were smoothing each other's fur.

Date of Birth: July 1, 1955 Location: San Diego, California Email: patty@newuniquevideos.com Website: http://www.newunique.com Publications: Eclectica, Free Zone Quarterly, Stirring, Fairfield Review, Cedar Hill Review, Red Cedar Review, Stirring, etc. Awards: California Press Women, 1st Place Poetry; Red Cedar Review, poetry award; First Annual San Diego Writers’ Cooperative Writing Competition

- April 2002 - For C.C. and Mr. Shaman Midnight at the Hot Springs A Rebeginning Things that are Left at K-mart, According my Dream on Wednesday Little Shadows Anonymity Domestic Leaving the dining room Coup The New Gynecologist Dreaming of Grandma Anastasia Gathering vodka. - Stirring's Best Nature Poems - Rodin's Stare Attrition Hither and Yon Grace at the Top of the Food Chain Dear Alaska fraser river, december