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Shells, Barbara Mackay

Bryant Literary Review

today I walk a sullen beach

its sand a deep gray

had it once been white

Weather Wins, Francine Witte

Bryant Literary Review

It always does. Big blow

from the latest tornado?

That's just nature clearing

The Referee, David Alan Goldstein

Bryant Literary Review

Martin Abramson believed that very small, innocuous and seemly trivial acts were the key

Going-Away Party, Elton Glaser

Bryant Literary Review

Inside the white envelope, I find

An invitation to my death.

You can steam off the stamps,

Junior Munson Does The Long Haul, Elton Glaser

Bryant Literary Review

I like to start my mornings

Sunnyside up at a truckstop,

Sanctum, Robert Mcguill

Bryant Literary Review

The places where water comes together

with other water. Those places stand out

in my mind like holy places.

--Raymond Carver

Water. Crashing. Thundering down the boulders.

Disconnected, Jim Hart

Bryant Literary Review

I'm leaving you - she said

The words hanging in the air between us

Small Blue Butterflies, Buff Whitman-Bradley

Bryant Literary Review

On a walk around the lake

I pause to watch three small blue butterflies

Fountain, Josh Wardrip

Bryant Literary Review

In those days I would take the #3 downtown where I spent my afternoons having lunch at one of the little diners