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The @'S Of Your %'S, Ken Fifer

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The : )'s in my e-mail remind me how

our actual lives are also composed

of punctuation, and of punctuation's

What Happens To Kurt Cobain, William Snyder Jr.

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Courtney Love carries Kurt Cobain's ashes on the jets she flies in.

Getting Married In Vegas, Natalia Cortes Chaffin

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Maggie woke up to the stop and start of a car outside her bedroom window.

The Present, Fred Muratori

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It's taken all our lives to get here,

and the consciousness of that

is like a pause. But we

Sacrament, Todd Possehl

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Wait again for me at the bookstore café

When Quoddy Head Falls Into The Sea, Karl Foss

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It does not mean the world is about to end.

Go inland, where the black of water and sky separate.

Arabia, Jeffrey David Peckham

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Although he feels just fine, Neil still takes the morning off and keeps his appointment.

Feral, Antler Antler

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Boy raised by wolves, boy raised by panthers

boy raised by dolphins, boy raised by sequoias

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Our Americano, Denise Duhamel

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An apple pie Americano -- attaboy! -- got the ax for being asleep

Daylight Savings, Charles Harper Webb

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The body wakes at erstwhile 7:00

Solitaire, Priscilla Atkins

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The computer version

leaves me cold

I want the slippery

Rope Dancers, Jessica Newton

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When you walk a tightrope you have to think of it as getting across the first third, then the second third, which makes it the last third a piece of cake

The Interpretation Of Dreams, William Greenway

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I was back in Georgia (where my Welsh

grandfather came to live),

Northwest Island, Andrew Paul Sullivan

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Before feathery lavender striations of mackerel sky I forget all else.

Look Now, Charlotte Mandel

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Bronze oak leaves like cupped hands

offer rainwater

Chosin Reservoir, Robert Wallace

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SNOW

First the snow: lots of it. Heavy and wet and blinding to the naked eye on a sunny day.

Short Attention Span Scripture, Tommy Graves

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My neighbor across the street was a hundred and ninety years old and she could fly

Explanation, Peter Johnson

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What should I tell you? That it rained for five straight days, that the gutters leaked in spite of the duct tape,that a rat ate through the cellar screen and killed the cat.

Verso

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Editor's Note

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What Isn't Anchored, Mark Brazaitis

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I confessed I was drifting from you.

Days later, your hand in mine,

you reminded me, in hopeful mockery,

of what I'd said.

Granny's Tumor, T. M. Bemis

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"What?" I asked again, and the Indian doctor repeated it."

Mother's Skeleton, Audrey Doire

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I was sixteen when she

told me I wasn't her first.

An Innocent Heart, Catherine Harris

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I lived in a share house then, with embossed gold paisley wallpaper in the living room and rising damp in the hall.

Another Life, Kenneth Pobo

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Shirley MacLaine claims she

made it with Charlemagne.

Still Life, Brian Arundel

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We live a few hundred yards from a drive-in theater at the end of a dead end street on the edge of a small Virginia town called Spotsylvania that people only pass through on their way to someplace else.

The Tooth Fairy, Charles Harper Webb

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What would a fairy want with all those teeth?

When The Music Stops, Tony Leuzzi

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The sequined queen of sass says not on your life

"Prefer Slick, Feverish Grooves Over Funky Backbeats", Ace Boggess

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blessed rock'n'roll R & B funk folk acid jazz