Bernadette Geyer

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Bernadette K. Geyer (born June 16, 1968) is a poet, writer, and editor in Washington, D.C.. She graduated from Allegheny College. She worked for the US Fuel Cell Council, and was deputy director of Fuel Cells 2000; she served as editor-in-chief of The Word Works, and works as a freelance writer/editor in Vienna, Virginia. Her work has appeared in Hotel Amerika, The Marlboro Review, South Dakota Review, The Midwest Quarterly, The Potomac Review, Gargoyle, 32 poems, The Evansville Review, Elle.com, Sustainble Development International, The Montserrat Review, World Energy Review, and Marco Polo Magazine. She read at the Poetry at Noon Series at the Library of Congress.)

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Pearls

And so I look back
still thinking of her
with painful heart,
this clench of inner flesh.

—Kakinomoto Hitomaro
from Manyoshu

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