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Elegy For The Residents Of The Niagara Apartments, Ken Meisel

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Because there are stories too disturbing to retell

I have to first talk about the field of yellow flowers

Compost, Ravi Shankar

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Filling a tarp full of spindled elm leaves

that cling and loosen in wake of dragging

For Chance, Keep Beauty Warm, Nancy Lee Craven

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Keep truth ardent, fresh and limber

protect it by finding it in lowly places

and leave it there--

The Agreement, Lewis Schrager

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When the shooting starts, the tourists stay home. No tourists, no business--Mamoun Aboulafia knew the situation all too well.

The Lincoln-Douglas Debate Of 1984, Tom Williams

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I should have conceded as soon as Abraham Lincoln entered the room.

New In Town, Nancy White

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Yes, he still drops by, still for no reason. Even

today when rain bathes the house and

the path sheds its glove of dust.

Late Visions, Lynn Domina

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He's an old man with an infant

daughter dead seventy years.

"And Today", Jack Lindeman

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And today I wonder what should be done

and what not done,

and whether there is really

any difference between the two

Office Girl, Barry Jay Kaplan

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I work in an office. I have my own desk which has a drawer right under the main surface where inside when I was hired and sat down at it for the first time I found paper clips and little pads of different colors and lots of pens and pencils…

A Field Of Pumpkins, Martha Christina

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Glimpsed from the train

they're a sudden

and short-lived gift.

In Some Town's Junk Shop, John Hazard

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A photo: someone's tall father leans on a shovel

in failing light. It's black and white, but I see

the orange in the tip of his smoke

The Iris And The Blade, Kathleen Hellen

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The body Japanese:

perfect as the words;

Some Less Well-Tempered Claviers, John Grey

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This thinking is not all solitary.

Sometimes I take music along.

Johann Sebastian Bach,

Falcon, Colleen Abel

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The falconer makes a show of the release:

pretending to heave the bird to open air,

Discussion Questions, Kevin Toth

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Now that you've finished the novel, use the following questions to strengthen your understanding of the text or to spark discussion amongst your class or book club.

The Rocking Cradle, Juned Subhan

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It was bizarre when it happened to them, like a sign of something else to come, as if it was only the beginning, as if they should have foreseen it, but didn't, and were foolish not to.

Convergent Dualities: The Explorations Of A Developing Poet, Jonathan Cetrano

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

This capstone analyzes Cetrano's own poetry and becomes a foundation for future publication of his works.

Bon Voyage, Alan Soldofsky

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

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Verso

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Table Of Contents

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Two Swans In A Pond Next To The Highway, J. R. Solonche

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They have chosen well, these two

swans, one swimming the circumference

of the water, its neck a parenthesis

Maho Bay, Near The Astrologer's Table, Lyn Lifshin

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yellow bird on

the table, two

curious lizards

Photography, Rustin Larson

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Earth takes a long-exposure photo of herself--

her apartment a kind of camera obscura--

Squid, Mary Ann Mayer

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We dissected one in school,

and it squirted ink all over the room

when I squeezed it.

Drawing Blanks, John Azrak

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I turned my memory over

to you when, unexpectedly

Country Junction, Tom Miller Juvik

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Talk to anyone in the county about the murder of Al DeLancy, the explanation will be the same.

Falling Leaves, Gary Hanna

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In the crispness

of the night

I reach out, knowing

Rory Gilley, Cody Stratton

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People always wonder

But never question why

Untitled, Sudie Nostrand

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This is Penelope speaking.

You tell me

you've killed a big man

with one eye

Body Piercing, Janet Proulx

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When he was five, my brother was chased by bees

after poking their hive with a stick