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Born Again In Brooklyn, John Azrak

Bryant Literary Review

I want to be born again

in Brooklyn. Oh, how I would

worship the very playground

Shell, Sean Thomas Dougherty

Bryant Literary Review

For to forget him was to forget what was, which was, of course, she thought, a kind of beginning in itself, like an egg.

The Covenant, Doug Ramspeck

Bryant Literary Review

Her flowers are dying in the old clay pot.

Her tomato vines are withering.

The Female Of The Species, Erica Johnson Debeljak

Bryant Literary Review

A strange woman came to me early this morning. I think she must have appeared at around six in the morning:

Untitled, Kiki Denis

Bryant Literary Review

i always thought we melt in years but now i know

we melt in space

Jacob, Bryan Walpert

Bryant Literary Review

And what will you do when your doubt

wakes you in the middle of the night--

Where I'M From, Robert Disario

Bryant Literary Review

I am from a 6 acre wood in Medford, NJ

where my father died when I was five,

Home, Rest Home, Megan Jones

Bryant Literary Review

Here, where every ceiling tile speaks

its own fact,

every crack in the

wall holds the trappings of code

Scrambled Eggs, Amy E. Butcher

The Mercury

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Sick On The Inside, Maelina A. Frattaroli

The Mercury

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The Mercury 2006

The Mercury

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The Veteran, Geoffrey S. Calver

The Mercury

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Dental Care, Amy E. Butcher

The Mercury

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Capisci?, Maelina A. Frattaroli

The Mercury

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Planetary Eyes, Marilyn S. Springer

The Mercury

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The Game's Afoot: Images Of Infinite Games In Samuel Delany's Trouble On Triton, Marc R. Zaldivar

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Games are frequently used in speculative literature as a metaphor for real-world activities. In Trouble on Triton, Samuel Delany uses several sorts of games in order to explore complex systems of modeling and interrelationships between fiction and reality, extending a tradition in science fiction of placing games at the very center of social reality. Zaldivar's essay seeks to define some of the concepts of game theory that can be used to understand this complex novel and its representation of human social life. In particular, Zaldivar explores finite and infinite games and their uses within a deconstructive theoretical framework. A …

Ashes To Ashes, Amanda Dier

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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Thesis, Bryan Walpert

Bryant Literary Review

Consider the certain rhetoric of flatware.

The drawer's slots, the clean classification:

Nikkie And Jesus, Arthur Winfield Knight

Bryant Literary Review

My wife says we ought to feed the dog

before we go to dinner, but I know

The Final Note, Roland Goity

Bryant Literary Review

Boxes everywhere. And strapping tape, lots of strapping tape. Enough to mark a football field end zone

Homecoming, Susan Clayton-Goldner

Bryant Literary Review

A father hangs small clothes in the trees

believing his dead son

will find them, dress up

Love American Style (Or How Pop Got His Green Card), Rosanna Armendariz

Bryant Literary Review

My pop, Nigel Pepper, came to the United States in 1971. He flew here illegally, using a network of bribes.

Wild Running Words, Jeanne Lohmann

Bryant Literary Review

because you can die of indecision

and wanting to do too much

in one failing body whose limits

George Segal's The Butcher Shop, Stephen Gibson

Bryant Literary Review

Take a plaster body cast of a dumpy

butcher, set her across from a plaster customer

Call It A Draw: On Art And Love, Neil Carpathios

Bryant Literary Review

--for my wife

We argue over the Rothko

in the museum. I say it

looks like the inside of

Reprise For A Memory, Askold Skalsky

Bryant Literary Review

--after Donald Justice

I ask you to come back now as you were in October,

elegant, lithe, the auburn hair upswept with a topknot of tulle.

Icarus As Teacher, Ann Zoller

Bryant Literary Review

When Icarus taught me

to fly beyond the dream,

Running Out, J. S. Kierland

Bryant Literary Review

When the deep shadows finally came in he sprung out of a cluster of junipers and made a run for the mountain's stark cliffs.

Aspects Of Kelly's Death, Ken Meisel

Bryant Literary Review

When the boy stopped breathing

it was because he'd lived one day

too long, anyhow.

Grace, Michael Homolka

Bryant Literary Review

My lap full watching midnight infomercials,

I scoop chips into salsa, Oreos into ice cream.