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Older Brother, Thomas A. West, Jr.

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As a child I wondered

what the lobster saw in the last second

before it flopped twisting into boiling

Whistler's Mother, Lisa Starr

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"Why I are you whistling?" I ask.

Have I been? He replies.

Is it annoying?

Into The Storm, Tatianna Williams

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Olivia sits in the chair near the silent radio and reaches for her brush with a trembling hand.

The Charleston Church Massacre, David Dragone

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The reporter with perfect hair and perfect teeth

asked Mrs. Tragedy how she felt

now that her innocent son had been gunned down in church.

A Litany For Tender Mercies And Tougher Meats, Sean Gill

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"Reebs, chicken, poke chop, slice beef, chop beef, turkey laig, links, baked pohtatah, boot ann, bolo,

Grounded, Marilyn Ringer

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From the pavement

of the small-town

parking lot I watch

Call It A Draw: On Art And Love, Neil Carpathios

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--for my wife

We argue over the Rothko

in the museum. I say it

looks like the inside of

For My Mother Who Has Never Been To Cape Cod, Carla Panciera

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Bayside, the water sluices in.

A clump of seaweed, frilled and green

September Light, Connie Harrington

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Switch off the lamp at the top of the stairway, as dusk calls you to the armchair at your window,

Aspects Of Kelly's Death, Ken Meisel

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When the boy stopped breathing

it was because he'd lived one day

too long, anyhow.

Grace, Michael Homolka

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My lap full watching midnight infomercials,

I scoop chips into salsa, Oreos into ice cream.

Tunes, Michael H. Brownstein

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George walked the way he whistled. "That's just the way I walk," he said.

Thesis, Bryan Walpert

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Consider the certain rhetoric of flatware.

The drawer's slots, the clean classification:

A Boy's Bike, Diane Lockward

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One morning a bike appears in our driveway,

at the end where we can't not notice it,

The Final Note, Roland Goity

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Boxes everywhere. And strapping tape, lots of strapping tape. Enough to mark a football field end zone

Dream Landscape With Wheatfield, Art Zilleruelo

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1

when the wind

comes, my father fishhooks

a tape recorder and casts

Nikkie And Jesus, Arthur Winfield Knight

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My wife says we ought to feed the dog

before we go to dinner, but I know

Men's Department, Leslie Pietrzyk

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Ann had been watching her husband pick through suits long enough, and the painful blister on her heel had just popped.

Homecoming, Susan Clayton-Goldner

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A father hangs small clothes in the trees

believing his dead son

will find them, dress up

What Cannot Be Found Is Always Enough, Thomas Bonoma

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When you can no longer point to me,

waving at you from the edge of these woods,

Goody-Goody, Robert Kaye

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"Don't be such a goody-goody, Wilson." The voice arched over the heads of children and parents alike,

Shipwreck Survivors March Along The Coastline, Timothy Martin

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Three days, twelve days, a lifetime.

To starboard, the sea that didn't bury us.

George Segal's The Butcher Shop, Stephen Gibson

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Take a plaster body cast of a dumpy

butcher, set her across from a plaster customer

Wild Running Words, Jeanne Lohmann

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because you can die of indecision

and wanting to do too much

in one failing body whose limits

Reprise For A Memory, Askold Skalsky

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--after Donald Justice

I ask you to come back now as you were in October,

elegant, lithe, the auburn hair upswept with a topknot of tulle.

Love American Style (Or How Pop Got His Green Card), Rosanna Armendariz

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My pop, Nigel Pepper, came to the United States in 1971. He flew here illegally, using a network of bribes.

Travel Tips For The Solo Female In Central America, Cindy May Murphy

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I.

Do not pick up pillows thrown

into airplane aisles by withered men

Icarus As Teacher, Ann Zoller

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When Icarus taught me

to fly beyond the dream,

Born Again In Brooklyn, John Azrak

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I want to be born again

in Brooklyn. Oh, how I would

worship the very playground

Running Out, J. S. Kierland

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When the deep shadows finally came in he sprung out of a cluster of junipers and made a run for the mountain's stark cliffs.