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Blimps Are Cool, Molly Sizer May 2019

Blimps Are Cool, Molly Sizer

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Today we saw the Goodyear Blimp. It flew above the roofs of town.

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Carved Door, Dennis Ross May 2019

Carved Door, Dennis Ross

Westview

I stagger with a heavy door, thick, ancient oak with six carved panels: a dove, a plow, flowers, wreathed acanthus leaves.

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Health Care, Dick Bentley May 2019

Health Care, Dick Bentley

Westview

On this hill, in this clump of trees at the edge of the golf course, I sit with the wind swaying the daisies.

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If Ever, Dilvin Işiki May 2019

If Ever, Dilvin Işiki

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If ever this sadness unbraces the ties between me and you, I’ll hang myself to your happiness;

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Midnight Run To Nacogdoches, Robert L. Penick May 2019

Midnight Run To Nacogdoches, Robert L. Penick

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He is sitting in a fast food restaurant, pining for a woman who has never had an original thought in her life. It is Christmas Eve, and she is five hundred miles away, celebrating with her new in-laws. He is a damned fool, but hasn’t quite realized it yet.

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Naming Southwest Oklahoma, Molly Sizer May 2019

Naming Southwest Oklahoma, Molly Sizer

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Young Andrew Carnegie invested years steeling money; in his old age, he built imposing music halls on the east coast and libraries in rural towns out west.

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The Choice Is Mine, John Grey May 2019

The Choice Is Mine, John Grey

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I wear mismatched clothes, fill the sink with dirty dishes, sit and watch football on the TV until all hours

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Lampyridae, Donna Emerson May 2019

Lampyridae, Donna Emerson

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As I walk down the June steps of the farmhouse, fireflies flash close to my face.

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Commemorate, Nan Byrne May 2019

Commemorate, Nan Byrne

Westview

We learn by losing The dead—first one becomes many The truth we knew becomes the truth we suffered

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Doughboy And Jenny, Donna L. Emerson May 2019

Doughboy And Jenny, Donna L. Emerson

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Our summer horses, five-gaited warm-bloods. Alert, easy to ride.

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Green, Richard Dinges Jr. May 2019

Green, Richard Dinges Jr.

Westview

Green is cool to gaze into, woods strangled in undergrowth

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Part One, Diane Glancy May 2019

Part One, Diane Glancy

Westview

The Man Who Loves Dreamsicles

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Rains, James B. Nicola May 2019

Rains, James B. Nicola

Westview

One kind of rain wears moccasins and comes in quiet as a ghost then leaves your cheeks-nose-forehead moist with an unremarked kiss.

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Summer Thunderstorm, Richard Dinges Jr. May 2019

Summer Thunderstorm, Richard Dinges Jr.

Westview

A cold pierce, bolts crack sky’s lids, a brief glimpse at eternity

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Contributors, Westview Staff May 2019

Contributors, Westview Staff

Westview

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Birds Of Light, Jack Cooper May 2019

Birds Of Light, Jack Cooper

Westview

Autumn streams of rain hit the maple tree and red and yellow leaves wing off in all directions

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Drifting, Nan Byrne May 2019

Drifting, Nan Byrne

Westview

On the bed my eyes closed I am letting drift take me

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Festina Lente, Jack Cooper May 2019

Festina Lente, Jack Cooper

Westview

I once laid a stone path in the yard and unearthed a spadefoot toad in hibernation

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Here And Now, Dennis Ross May 2019

Here And Now, Dennis Ross

Westview

Driving along an Iowa gravel road I am sometimes jolted wide awake as from a forever sleep, struck by the immediacy of the world,

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Hometown, Kenneth Beck May 2019

Hometown, Kenneth Beck

Westview

My hometown is a monochrome. Pack rats on every block with vintage Whatever-you-have from whatever-year.

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Human Rib Bone, $10, Shiann Dawson May 2019

Human Rib Bone, $10, Shiann Dawson

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A little gift shop, nestled into a house of death Filled with…well, Trinkets, mostly.

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Imperfect English Composition, Anne Babson May 2019

Imperfect English Composition, Anne Babson

Westview

Thesis: While in love, no matter what my mother says about the milk for free, I have discovered that he is prose, not sonnet. While having sterling qualities, he is not perfect. Remind the reader that no one is. Remind self.

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Interactive Sonnet, James B. Nicola May 2019

Interactive Sonnet, James B. Nicola

Westview

This is the place where I’m supposed to say a thing I have to say, and soundly, then expound upon it like a pregnant hen with fourteen eggs she cannot help but lay.

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Ire Man, James B. Nicola May 2019

Ire Man, James B. Nicola

Westview

When the life is mostly moor, make it poetry.

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Irises Planted On A Grave, Gordon Grice May 2019

Irises Planted On A Grave, Gordon Grice

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The irises lick the wind with fragrant tongues…

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New Barista, Dennis Ross May 2019

New Barista, Dennis Ross

Westview

She moves like a half-grown colt, all legs and skinny arms…

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On Wings, Richard Dinges Jr. May 2019

On Wings, Richard Dinges Jr.

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Each day, more flies descend and buzz my porch. I bathe.

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Part Ii, Diane Glancy May 2019

Part Ii, Diane Glancy

Westview

The Erring Need of Narrative

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Prayers Coagulate Around A Woman On Her Porch, Henry D. Goldkamp May 2019

Prayers Coagulate Around A Woman On Her Porch, Henry D. Goldkamp

Westview

Southern static : pink tongue : dewy ears : seagulls yelling Wal-Mart

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Princesses, Donna L. Emerson May 2019

Princesses, Donna L. Emerson

Westview

First grade girls are deciding who’s a princess. They say I’m not one.

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