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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

Mother's Skeleton, Audrey Doire

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I was sixteen when she

told me I wasn't her first.

Granny's Tumor, T. M. Bemis

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

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.

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.

The Tooth Fairy, Charles Harper Webb

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What would a fairy want with all those teeth?

Our Americano, Denise Duhamel

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

Verso

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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

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.

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),

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.

Feral, Antler Antler

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Boy raised by wolves, boy raised by panthers

boy raised by dolphins, boy raised by sequoias

Sacrament, Todd Possehl

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Wait again for me at the bookstore café

The Coffee Table Book, Mark Defoe

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I flipped through the pages, when suddenly

a page seared -- snapshots of bodies ablaze,

bayonets, babies and boots in the face.

Comparison/Contrast, Rustin Larson

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His elegy is good, but his elegy is not

Good. His whisper tends to shrink

Northwest Island, Andrew Paul Sullivan

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

Second Showing, Todd Balazic

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I do get to say

the clever thing I say

about Nietzsche and the pathos of distance

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.

Bad Poet's Epitaph, Candice Rowe

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If I die on the Martha's Vineyard ferry,

Water the arbutus,

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

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Study/Statues, Leonard Gontarek

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Philadelphia slips its branches
through the dusk. The statues flake off.

The Secret Agent Held Over At O'Hare, Bill Sweeney

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It was nice to see Chicago
on the way to Santiago