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Orange Poppies, Helen Wickes May 2009

Orange Poppies, Helen Wickes

Bryant Literary Review

They do their best to deceive you,
the satiny sheen of their petals

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Happy, Peter Johnson May 2009

Happy, Peter Johnson

Bryant Literary Review

In spite of persistent rumors, let me assure you I'm happy.

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The Song Of Louise Blue Feather, Zan Bockes May 2009

The Song Of Louise Blue Feather, Zan Bockes

Bryant Literary Review

I played violin in high school.

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Two-Timing The Beekeeper, Timothy Martin May 2009

Two-Timing The Beekeeper, Timothy Martin

Bryant Literary Review

Of all the unwise things you have ever done
(and that counts the time you threw the lit dynamite stick

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Karel And Eva, Michael Pikna May 2009

Karel And Eva, Michael Pikna

Bryant Literary Review

I wake up next to Eva again but I don't remember getting into bed with her or how dad's gun got into my left hand which is crazy I know.

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Young Boy Riding The Wave Of Desire Out Of This Poem, Ken Meisel May 2009

Young Boy Riding The Wave Of Desire Out Of This Poem, Ken Meisel

Bryant Literary Review

The young boy who is about ten years old and sitting on the front step of a burned house and bouncing a small rubber ball on the charred garbage strewn sidewalk

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On A Beach With White Sand, Matt Ross May 2009

On A Beach With White Sand, Matt Ross

Bryant Literary Review

In trillions of years,
Every inch of matter

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We Are All Boot Makers To Kings, Matt Ross May 2009

We Are All Boot Makers To Kings, Matt Ross

Bryant Literary Review

I praise the justice,
Raise my hands to the sky,

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I Traveled South, Janet Jennings May 2009

I Traveled South, Janet Jennings

Bryant Literary Review

We drove to the coast to sip Black Russians. Cream swirled in an ice-
black sea. My name changed every day.

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End Of Summer Session At The Music School, Michael Hogan May 2009

End Of Summer Session At The Music School, Michael Hogan

Bryant Literary Review

Cecilia Hall is silent tonight:
no oboes, no flutes

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Jerome And The Angel, Jennifer Anne Moses May 2009

Jerome And The Angel, Jennifer Anne Moses

Bryant Literary Review

Jerome had two secrets, both of them so beautiful that he wanted to burst open, just burst right open at the seams, spilling himself everywhere, all over the floor

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Instructions, Geri Rosenzweig May 2009

Instructions, Geri Rosenzweig

Bryant Literary Review

Before you fit me into a pine box and
lower me into the ground to the chant

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Exposed, Michelle Soucy May 2009

Exposed, Michelle Soucy

Bryant Literary Review

This should have been a clue, an omen.

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Barred Owl, B. J. Best May 2009

Barred Owl, B. J. Best

Bryant Literary Review

somewhere in the forest lives a question.
ice cracks, wind whips, a child is putting

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Bridge Of Sighs, Don Kunz May 2009

Bridge Of Sighs, Don Kunz

Bryant Literary Review

One wrong turn
(For which Venice is famous)

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The Waves, Jéanpaul Ferro May 2009

The Waves, Jéanpaul Ferro

Bryant Literary Review

In the afternoon, when the sky
is almost out of sun,

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Hartford Circus Fire (1944), John Surowiecki May 2009

Hartford Circus Fire (1944), John Surowiecki

Bryant Literary Review

All we were told was that the animals
were saved and the children died;

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Undershirt, Donna Pucciani May 2009

Undershirt, Donna Pucciani

Bryant Literary Review

That undershirt
with the hole I'd like to put my index finger through

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Morendo, Al Niente (Dying Away, To Nothing), Ryan Cipriano May 2009

Morendo, Al Niente (Dying Away, To Nothing), Ryan Cipriano

Bryant Literary Review

Chicago plaza, centered around a fountain
Beside which Stanley passed away

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The Last Transgression, William Peacock May 2009

The Last Transgression, William Peacock

Bryant Literary Review

August 31. Valerie cut her foot on a shell this afternoon and acted like she was going to die.

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Autobiography, Pamela S. Wynn May 2009

Autobiography, Pamela S. Wynn

Bryant Literary Review

My parent's match was made on the outskirts of heaven.

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To A Former Student Training To Become An Interrogator, David O'Connell May 2009

To A Former Student Training To Become An Interrogator, David O'Connell

Bryant Literary Review

They say pressure isn't torture
and, at times, because I don't know better
I'm willing to agree

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Lyme Tick, Mitch Lescarbeau May 2009

Lyme Tick, Mitch Lescarbeau

Bryant Literary Review

Through the porch screen of the makeshift sickroom
the patient boats in the cove

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Gone Too Soon, Nancy Lee Craven May 2009

Gone Too Soon, Nancy Lee Craven

Bryant Literary Review

You left, I think, under the burden of heavy judgment,
Or grief too difficult to bear. I do not know, but I would like to,

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How Far Is Home, Robin Caine May 2009

How Far Is Home, Robin Caine

Bryant Literary Review

Her younger sister, Beth, met a Venezuelan man at a wedding, where she was a bridesmaid and he was the best man.

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Kidnapped At Birth, Buff Whitman-Bradley May 2009

Kidnapped At Birth, Buff Whitman-Bradley

Bryant Literary Review

Every one of us was kidnapped at birth
By a man in money-colored shoes who
Snatched us away from our real parents

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The Other Betty, Pat Schultheis May 2009

The Other Betty, Pat Schultheis

Bryant Literary Review

Grow old and you'll become a stranger to yourself.

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One More Time For Donny Deadborne, Stephen Roger Powers May 2009

One More Time For Donny Deadborne, Stephen Roger Powers

Bryant Literary Review

I'm a feature comedian.

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Lines For An Absent Friend, Larry Rubin May 2009

Lines For An Absent Friend, Larry Rubin

Bryant Literary Review

So you weren't there--the emptiness
Would have shattered me, except I know how atoms

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Chicken-In-The-Pot, Charles Harper Webb May 2009

Chicken-In-The-Pot, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

One dollar buys a chance to catapult
a rubber bird onto a spinning table that seems

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