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The Baker's Secret, Kathy Anderson

Bryant Literary Review

The town baker wakes at dawn, stands in his silent shop, with floured hands slaps rounded balls of dough

Places, Mark Brazaitis

Bryant Literary Review

Salcajá, Lanquín, Purulhá:

the places we made love.

Lesson One, Janet Proulx

Bryant Literary Review

All winter long

Sister Mary Julian would enter the classroom,

Fan Letter, John Mann

Bryant Literary Review

Dear life, dear earth, dear season of snow.

Impending Doom, Mario Duarte

Bryant Literary Review

Out of nothing, nowhere,

a boy grasping a red balloon

wavers over the circus tent.

Leavetaking, Janet Proulx

Bryant Literary Review

As I leave the nursing home where my mother now lives

First Sky, Jay Udall

Bryant Literary Review

Some days you don't need a second sky--

the one outside is what you have

Sean, Courtney Zullo

Bryant Literary Review

A handcrafted butterfly hangs over her bed,

Notes On Laureateship, Michael S. Harper

Bryant Literary Review

You must act like a Morpho in the forest

Perhaps thirty feet in the air

The Word Box, Christopher Brookhouse

Bryant Literary Review

We can't sleep.

I'm hungry, she says.

I know what she wants.

The Day After, Patricia Dobler

Bryant Literary Review

So I walked back to the place we'd found him,

needing to see the blood stains and my hands

in the place his head had lain.

Consider, Mary Crow

Bryant Literary Review

Consider the polar bear

whose every white hair is a heat pipe

In The New Guinea Highlands, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

I can't get over the belief

that the simplest people always know more;

The Sparrows, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

It's not their flight but how they

alight on the gutters where I might live.

The Touch So, Rob Diehm

Bryant Literary Review

the touch so

deep (little hairs

stand on end)

we become one

Hands That Drew Them As They Are, Unity Durieux

Bryant Literary Review

These hands have delved in ruin,

plumbed lovers' pockets, availed

themselves of coldcuts, goodbooks

Dyslexic, Will Nixon

Bryant Literary Review

The year I learned the hangman's noose

I tied it everywhere: tire swings, clothes lines,

Thoughtless, Chris Semansky

Bryant Literary Review

A piano falls from the sky.

A quite beautiful piano.

Junior College, J. Tarwood

Bryant Literary Review

All my friends had gone off

As if each had found a fate.

Infant Savant, Naton Leslie

Bryant Literary Review

Madonna and child on

the south-east crossing pier