Janet
Garber
GENRES
POETRY
"Tikkun Olam"
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"Death is all around you"
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"Exploration"
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"My Boy, Seth"
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"Baby Love"
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"Trees in a Hurricane," The Rainbow journal 2015 and Tiny Seed :Literary Journal. 2020
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To Her Importunate Lover," Ravensperch, 2021
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"Three Aspirins and a Cat in the Morning" Viral Cat Press, 2010
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"The World is Cruel," Heyday Magazine 2014
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"A Boy Leaves His Mother, Cyclamens and Swords, 2015
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"Belly to Belly," Hazardcat 2010
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"Five poems," Awakenings review, 2019
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To his coy mistress
by Andrew Marvell, 17th Century
by Andrew Marvell
Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk and pass our long love’s day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side
Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast;
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart;
For, Lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.
But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song: then worms shall try
That long preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust:
The grave’s a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapt power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
To Her Importunate Lover or Move Over, Marvell
by Janet Garber
Had I but lust enough and time,
This pawing, sir, were no crime.
I’d dally gladly on your knee,
And let your hands roam mainly free
You sir should bonk me once or twicely,
Put it to me oh-so-nicely,
Round and Round we’d go.
And why not Insert your sword into all slots?
Tit for tat, tat for whitest tit,
Forgetting not my lady bits!
What rush is there you ask, my man,
The fire’s sizzling in the pan!
Delay, you risk a change of heart,
A drawing back of every part,
A sidewise glance at other fruit
A lightened step, a fast salute.
So au revoir my little knight,
‘Tis not for naught; ‘tis not for spite.
Your manners so impeccable.
Turn my lust imperceptible.
Pray let me go as off I must
Unless my ardor turn to rust.
Yon lord does turn a twinkling eye
Upon my self, I dare not lie.
His well-trimmed beard, his massive hand,
My heart leaps up. He’s quite a brand
Off go I then to ___ with him,
My fate is not to be Ms. Prim.
My best to you, oh tardy knight,
Perhaps one day you’ll get it right
SHORT STORIES
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Secrets, Bohemia, February 2014, Vol. 4, No. 2
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Mamie Mine, Apologues of Erotica, North2Southpress anthology, 2014
Losing Face, Pen2Paper contest finalist
Shishkosh, Newtown Literary Journal
Are You My Son? Zimbell Press, Dark Monsters anthology, January 2016.
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Undercover Cat, Forge Literary Magazine
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"The day Lin Mee blew up her house, with husband Wei inside, she made sure their daughter, Ming, was at a sleepover. And that was the very day Ming, 15, decided to “go all the way” with her boyfriend, forever conflating her transgressive act of lying atop him in his small attic room, pumping away with all her might, with the death of her father, and presumably, her mother."
FICTION
"Are You My Son?" Zimbell Press 2016
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'Undercover Cat,' Forge Literary Magazine, 2016
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"The Flap of a Single Wing, Writing Tomorrow, 2013
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"Werewolves, Beware! Growing Pains, Sinister Saints Press
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'To the Manner Born," Every Family's Got one, 2022
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"Milou is Here," Birthing Magazine, 2023 and Tulip Tree 2019
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'Secrets," Bohemia, 2014 and Kind of a Hurricane press 2016
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"Memory Box," Infective Ink 2015
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"Company Wife," When Women Waken, 2014
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"Shishkosh," Newtown Literary Journal, 2014 and Tigershark Publishing, 2016
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"Losing Face," Pen2Paper contest finalist, 2014
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"Monster Mash," CommuterLit 2016
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"Ponytail Man,"CommuterLit 2016
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"Night Tavern," Medium, 2016
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"Three Gentlemen Callers," 2017 bellaonline, 2017
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"Carlos/Carlita," Greywolfe Anthology 2017
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"One Doesn't Trifle with Love," San Diego City Works Journal, 2017
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"O Brave New World," RavensPerch 2019
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'Creation, Inc." RavensPerch 2020
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""The Bite," Jack Walker Press, Friends anthology, 2020
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'Stranger on the Plane," CoffinBell.com, 2020
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"Family Values," BoomerCafe, 2020
NON-FICTION
"Too Late," Working Mother Magazine, 2011
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"On Perseverance," Minerva Rising, 2014
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"Success Story," Writers Weekly, 2014
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"Nothing Lasts Forever," Mamalode, 2016
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"A Closet of One's Own, Longridge Review, 2016
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"Desperately Seeking Acceptance," Talking Writing, 2016
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"Yo, Ma. . .What Was I Doing Anyway?" Monkey Star Press, 2016
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"Reflections on Thirty Years in Human Resources," SHRM Online 2016
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"Where the Bodies are Buried," Transition, 2018
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"Desperately Seeking Soulmate," Chicken Soup for the Soul, Miracle of Love, 2018
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"How to Care for Yourself When it's Your Job to Care for others," Your Workplace 2018
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"Filling in the Blanks," NYT Solver Solutions, 2019
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"How to Appease a Sports Maven, Baseball Bard, 2022
"Picking Up the Pieces,"