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The Wounded, Dave Cappella

Bryant Literary Review

The one-legged pigeon understands

the loneliness of the man.

Hobbling under the patio table

behind a chair, the bird waits

for a morsel from the stranger.

In Oxford Cemetery, Louis Bourgeois

Bryant Literary Review

You thought because

the trees moved

and the stones didn't

Lights And Shadows - 2004, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

The Lantern Vol. 71, No. 1, Fall 2003, Katy Diana, Bart Brooks, Sarah Napolitan, Susannah Fisher, Sarah Kauffman, Dan Bruno, Trevor Strunk, Jan Cohen, Jen Brink, Jonathan Gagas, Shane Borer, Kate Chapman, Dennis Kearney, Crystal Mccarney, Ashley Mcintosh, Klaus Yoder, Kate Juliano, John Ramsey, Melanie Scriptunas, Alison Shaffer

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Lights of Venice
• Portrait
• Switzerland
• Drunken
• Revel Writing
• Nectarines
• Shifting Gears
• Stogie
• Reflect
• In the Key of Fuchsia Minor
• Jarring
• Sissy
• Mongols vs. Amish: X-Treme Culture Clash
• Holding On
• The Bethany
• Creekside
• The Real Thing
• On Being Alone and Other Pleasures
• Forced Entry
• The Case of Beauty: Aesthetics of Distance

What Isn't Anchored, Mark Brazaitis

Bryant Literary Review

I confessed I was drifting from you.

Days later, your hand in mine,

you reminded me, in hopeful mockery,

of what I'd said.

When The Music Stops, Tony Leuzzi

Bryant Literary Review

The sequined queen of sass says not on your life

"Prefer Slick, Feverish Grooves Over Funky Backbeats", Ace Boggess

Bryant Literary Review

blessed rock'n'roll R & B funk folk acid jazz

Kindergarten, Lisa Zimmerman

Bryant Literary Review

It's hard to know

how much they love their children,

these mothers and fathers

Look Now, Charlotte Mandel

Bryant Literary Review

Bronze oak leaves like cupped hands

offer rainwater

Explanation, Peter Johnson

Bryant Literary Review

What should I tell you? That it rained for five straight days, that the gutters leaked in spite of the duct tape,that a rat ate through the cellar screen and killed the cat.

The Present, Fred Muratori

Bryant Literary Review

It's taken all our lives to get here,

and the consciousness of that

is like a pause. But we

The @'S Of Your %'S, Ken Fifer

Bryant Literary Review

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

Bryant Literary Review

I was sixteen when she

told me I wasn't her first.

Another Life, Kenneth Pobo

Bryant Literary Review

Shirley MacLaine claims she

made it with Charlemagne.

When Quoddy Head Falls Into The Sea, Karl Foss

Bryant Literary Review

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

Bryant Literary Review

What would a fairy want with all those teeth?

Our Americano, Denise Duhamel

Bryant Literary Review

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

Daylight Savings, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

The body wakes at erstwhile 7:00

Solitaire, Priscilla Atkins

Bryant Literary Review

The computer version

leaves me cold

I want the slippery

What Happens To Kurt Cobain, William Snyder Jr.

Bryant Literary Review

Courtney Love carries Kurt Cobain's ashes on the jets she flies in.

The Interpretation Of Dreams, William Greenway

Bryant Literary Review

I was back in Georgia (where my Welsh

grandfather came to live),

Feral, Antler Antler

Bryant Literary Review

Boy raised by wolves, boy raised by panthers

boy raised by dolphins, boy raised by sequoias

Sacrament, Todd Possehl

Bryant Literary Review

Wait again for me at the bookstore café

The Coffee Table Book, Mark Defoe

Bryant Literary Review

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

Bryant Literary Review

His elegy is good, but his elegy is not

Good. His whisper tends to shrink

Northwest Island, Andrew Paul Sullivan

Bryant Literary Review

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

Second Showing, Todd Balazic

Bryant Literary Review

I do get to say

the clever thing I say

about Nietzsche and the pathos of distance

Bad Poet's Epitaph, Candice Rowe

Bryant Literary Review

If I die on the Martha's Vineyard ferry,

Water the arbutus,

Short Attention Span Scripture, Tommy Graves

Bryant Literary Review

My neighbor across the street was a hundred and ninety years old and she could fly

Calliope : Across The Disciplines (Spring 2003), Calliope

Calliope

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