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Without Breath, Michelle Soucy

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I'm eight years old and my parents make me sleep in my sick younger brother's bed with him in case he stops breathing again

On The First Morning, Patsy Anne Bickerstaff

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of spring
when I see a red shiny
balloon valentine shaped
descend

On John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things", Nathaniel Lee Hansen

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With steady three-beat brushes and cymbal
of Elvin Jones, stand-up pulse of Steve Davis,

43rd And Main, Linsey Morse

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They see a burnt-out bitch on a sidewalk,
selling sex, her soul, to the devil for a smoke.

He's A Thief, Eliza Demarseilles

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He stole a piece of my heart, attached it to a voodoo doll

Chain-Smoking Mavericks At The Crestview Center For Health And Rehabilitation, Brent Taylor

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It's strange how there are some things
about yourself you'll never know

To Be So Dead He Sure Is Big, Phillip Gardner

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Donnie Swank said, "He sure was big."

I Have Already Thrown This Poem Away, Buff Whitman-Bradley

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I have already thrown this poem away
It's crumpled up in a ball

Contributors

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The Place Of Literature, Paul Hostovsky

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Mr. Gordon was perhaps a little tipsy
at the awards ceremony, perhaps a little

At The Harbor, Martha Christina

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Some days,
light passing
its benevolent hands

True You Magazine, Amanda Romaniello

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

True You Magazine was created because of the turmoil and conflict that today’s media creates for young girls between the ages of 10 years old and 14 years old. Girls of this age are highly susceptible to influences of any media form, including magazines, television shows, and movies. In the magazine industry, there are many women’s and teen fashion and health magazines. Unfortunately, the majority of these publications lack healthy representation of female bodies. Some of these magazines also discuss and advise on topics, like sex or dieting, that girls in this young age range should not be reading.

Knowing …

Monarchs In Love And Other Stories, Matthew Swetnam

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Monarchs in Love and Other Stories is a collection of nine short stories. These stories are structurally and tonally heterogeneous, and it is this heterogeneity of form that emerges as the collection's central concern. Present are stories which borrow other forms' organizational conceits (the almanac entries of "Excerpts from the Dwarf-Monger's Handbook"), stories which arrange themselves around arbitrary organizational conceits (the order of the letters of the alphabet in "26 Characters"), and stories which employ radically traditional formal models ("Blind Boy and Mammoth.") Present are stories narrated in the first-person point-of-view ("For a Walk," "Harem Girls"), stories narrated in the …

Title Page

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Verso

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Table Of Contents

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Editor's Note

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The Palm Reader Is Packing It In, Richard Luftig

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Since the cops have cracked down
there's no future in fortune telling anymore.

You And I, Gregory Sherl

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This morning we decide to build
a baby in your belly.

Traveling Alone, She Fell In The Sistine Chapel--, M. J. Iuppa

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collapsed in a whirl, as if a gust of wind
struck her weak ankle and set her spinning--

The Aloha State, Adam Berlin

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It wasn't our honeymoon but it was Hawaii. It had been all sky and water for thousands of miles, blue above, blue below.

A Map For Students, William Jolliff

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They want to make their poems right themselves,
and they know they should, but to win the A
they need me to like their work (so goes the rumor).

A Bullfight, C. W. Owens

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Warily, the bull's hooves pound the sand--
black hide, muscle, churning with intelligence--

Doing The Math, Martin Cloutier

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James was experiencing a breach -- a psychic breach. Like his real self was coming into contact with a parallel universe self.

Peace, Jack Granath

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I remember it as
a rock song, though

Secret Lives, Mary Elizabeth Parker

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A lacy blouse, two breasts beneath

Sonny, R. Steve Benson

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Seized by the day
he fell under a harrow

Light, Extra Sugar, No Patsy, Nancy Lee Craven

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"1992: A slice of life when dollars to donuts sometimes bought more than an even dozen"

A Dissertation On Rhymation, Evan Wallace

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The preparation for navigation through creation of sensation

We And The Joneses, Robert Laughlin

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Firmament will hit our heads--the
Ecos have the final word.