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Villanelle For The Sleepless Nights, Tabitha Russo Parker

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Home, Stephanie Polizzi

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Too Much, Mac Hamilton

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Vermicelli, Uncle Vinh, Huy Dang

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Hunt It Down, Richard Vie

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In The Time Of The Fireflies, Kathy Hoormann

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A Haiku; Art Is Hell, Dan Burkhead

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Poem No. 103, May 2010, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsvile, Ala.)

POEM

The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue features poems from various writers.

The Palm Reader Is Packing It In, Richard Luftig

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Since the cops have cracked down
there's no future in fortune telling anymore.

Children At The Wake, John Grey

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I admit that, more than once,

I've pointed to the sky

Dedication, Charles Harper Webb

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Where did Blake Bumgardner find the washtub-sized
cojones to confess over the phone, then listen

Confidence, Laura Buermann

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I am a polysyllabic phenomenon,
a thesauric wunderkind

Traveling Alone, She Fell In The Sistine Chapel--, M. J. Iuppa

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collapsed in a whirl, as if a gust of wind
struck her weak ankle and set her spinning--

Bee Lust In Manhattan, John F. Buckley, Martin Ott

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Thousands of bees swarmed outside a Manhattan
deli, trapping dozens of patrons, the meat scent

I Killed A Bug Last Night, Carol Hamilton

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He was walking along the edge
of the tasseled rug, no hurry,

On The First Morning, Patsy Anne Bickerstaff

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of spring
when I see a red shiny
balloon valentine shaped
descend

Peace, Jack Granath

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I remember it as
a rock song, though

On John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things", Nathaniel Lee Hansen

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With steady three-beat brushes and cymbal
of Elvin Jones, stand-up pulse of Steve Davis,

A Bullfight, C. W. Owens

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Warily, the bull's hooves pound the sand--
black hide, muscle, churning with intelligence--

43rd And Main, Linsey Morse

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They see a burnt-out bitch on a sidewalk,
selling sex, her soul, to the devil for a smoke.

He's A Thief, Eliza Demarseilles

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He stole a piece of my heart, attached it to a voodoo doll

Secret Lives, Mary Elizabeth Parker

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A lacy blouse, two breasts beneath

Sonny, R. Steve Benson

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Seized by the day
he fell under a harrow

Chain-Smoking Mavericks At The Crestview Center For Health And Rehabilitation, Brent Taylor

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It's strange how there are some things
about yourself you'll never know

We And The Joneses, Robert Laughlin

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Firmament will hit our heads--the
Ecos have the final word.

I Have Already Thrown This Poem Away, Buff Whitman-Bradley

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I have already thrown this poem away
It's crumpled up in a ball

A Dissertation On Rhymation, Evan Wallace

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The preparation for navigation through creation of sensation

Art Of The Bardo, Robert Haynes

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What can be known of the Bardo is simply
a reawakening to, say, a Monach,

The Place Of Literature, Paul Hostovsky

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Mr. Gordon was perhaps a little tipsy
at the awards ceremony, perhaps a little

At The Harbor, Martha Christina

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Some days,
light passing
its benevolent hands