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Another Gen-X Icon Dead, Ace Boggess

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Why are we the waning crowd,

grayest cloud, shattered vase

that once held crocuses & hope?

Mastery, Ken Victor

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And the experience of the failed

work is a prod to practice: think of

Constructing Border Quilts, Martha Brenckle

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looking for justice with thread, pins, needle

and scissors, cutting shirts and dungarees abandoned

Home Visit, Jesse Mardian

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4782 Menson Avenue was a small place with a dead lawn. Past the brittle grass where toys lay scattered, the house stood with peeling pink paint and a roof missing several clay shingles. Jennifer checked the address in her notebook, entered through a creaking gate, and walked to the door.

Is It Alice, Amy Or Anne?, George Longenecker

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Huddled with four other nameless people,

who sleep on cardboard and blankets,

in the entry of a garage alcove,

Leaning Into The Party, Stephen Roberts

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I was having a good time at the party
until I leaned back on the door frame

Block Island Haiku, Fred Yannantuono

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So many hatchbacks.

Eating The Whale, Mitch Lescarbeau

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He brings the sizzling strip
on a bone china plate.

Ennis, Ruth Holzer

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The dusty road to Ennis
rose up to meet me
like a blessing,

What's Going On, Ruth Holzer

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I'm making my way through the stormy night,
a long road back, after I've left Father

Wildfire, Charles Laird Calia

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For months there was no rain or very little, the mountain grasses were dry, prone to lightning strikes and wildfires, and Frank could see the river far from his little cabin, just beyond Federal land, drying up before his eyes.

Perseids, Deborah Fleming

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Mid-August and the hemisphere
Now turns its head away from light;

Peasant Woman In Gascony, Deborah Fleming

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1972

Under the shadow of the Pyrenees
In a field at the bottom of a hillside,

Heat Wave: November In Vermont, Mitch Lescarbeau

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The world's askew:
there should be packed pads

My Date With The Scientist, Kristy Nielsen

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He tells me even land has tides,
pulled like water by the moon.

What Is, Stephen Malin

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It is what it is
unless of course
it isn't in which case

With A Phone Call To Heaven, Bill Hoadley

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I wish I had a phone
that could talk straight to heaven.

Death Comes To The Office For Daniel Downer, Jennifer Companik

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He might've dispatched one of his Angels to do it, but Death knew Daniel would resist, and his best Angel was on vacation, harvesting souls in Costa Rica for the next month, so Death resolved to take Daniel himself.

Space Storms, Sarah Thompson

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You are the star
In the blackened sky

Lists, Michael Onofrey

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Earl has begun the prep work for painting the "foyer" of Bob and Lisa Kob's house, "foyer" a term Bob had used.

Island Time, Theresa Fairless

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Carry a sunset in your pocket,
let the beam break a seam.

Big Red, Ryan Warneke

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It loses value,
the faded red hood

Tail Of The Comet, Peter Johnson

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At 11 p.m. Lucille Gorski found herself standing in a cemetery next to a monument proclaiming, "Herein Lies Phineas McGee, Who Left When He Had the Chance."

The Blind Man At The Grand Canyon, John Kristofco

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He stood there with his friend,
the hundreds at the rim,

Late To Find Me, Marge Piercy

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In my adolescence, high school
and through college, I was amorphous.

Elegy, Brendan Nixon

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Death stood there in a leather jacket,
sunglasses on and his hands in his pockets.

Birds Of The Black Canyon, Vicki Lindner

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As they crossed the big mountains only she talked, hands off the wheel to gesture vivaciously.

Respect Your Elders, Charles Harper Webb

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"Ready for a fastball," the grizzled grampa
leather-lungs. "Alls he's got's a fastball.

Bald Eagle, Blackbirds, Matthew Spireng

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A dead blackbird on the driveway, eagle
swooping down to avoid the plague of blackbirds

If This Man, Matthew Spireng

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If this man with hairy ears, ears
sprouting--not like an old man,