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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

Editor's Note

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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

Kathleen Mary Mccarthy, Jason Starbuck

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chrysanthemums carnations red roses babies breath
mahogany casket golden lattice work dustless satin pillow etchings

Fat, Jeffrey David Peckham

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Arlene and Pappy spill out at the usual booth.

Fat Tuesday, Rosalynde Vas Dias

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tonight
Jesus is in New Orleans
warm with good red wine

Table Of Contents

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Everyone, Barry Ballard

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Everyone is born. Everyone grows, wonders,

Look What Happened To Me, Bayard

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Twilight in the window is all I remember.

Verso

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In A November Woods, David James

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Along the ridges
A white moth

Alterations And Repairs, Sue Repko

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The sign at the entrance to the municipal building said, "Wipe mud from shoes before entering."

North Korea Threatens To End Talks, Test Missile, Ace Boggess

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Westerners point fingers;
Japanese wave their arms

Swell, Gary Maggio

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If
all he could move were
his eyes

Study/Leaves, Leonard Gontarek

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I once understood it.
It was something you scraped off.

The Mad Girl Can't Bear Change, Lyn Lifshin

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In a year where
that's all there is.

Nighthawk Falls, Dusk The Opalescent River, Adirondacks, Richard Bentley

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Just before he awoke, Netherwood, the art historian, was mixing on his palette with a number five brush a shade of mauve whose color symbolized both complexity and distance.

Homage To The Furies, Sean Padraic Mccarthy

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They were putting in pipes for sewerage.

May Day, Ken Mccullough

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It happens when I feel myself
turning into a cottonwood

Selling To The Goyim, J. Weintraub

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It is my firm belief that the blood of generations of salesmen flows through my veins and that, at least on my father's side, peddlers, pitchmen, hucksters, drummers, horsetraders, and merchant princes have been in my family since the days of Solomon.

Flush, David Jauss

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My father didn't throw the hammer at me,
just toward me. I told myself it didn't hurt

Judging, Gordon Graves

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Old Dance Cameron looked over the rude plywood and the 2x4 structure that held the floral exhibits.

Tremors, David Jauss

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The night I heard you have Parkinson's
I dreamed I was walking through the meadow

Lessons, Ronald Thorpe

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I cannot remember
a day when I did not think
about dying.