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GATHERING BY PEGGY BECK

Fox hears the world whispered from a shell strewn by an old sea, leans toward it listening the way dreaming folds down the hard corners, imagining to be a stream and have more than one lifetime to fail and begin again, escape...

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FIRST BLOOD BY PEGGY BECK

Fox tastes the first blood breathing in a fever. Ragged to the bone, winter torn on her tail Fox lopes into a hunting night along the cliff-edge burnt-out wastes, up and down ravines in and out of shadowed patches of snow. The...

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LAX APOSTLE BY DAVID SAPP

I was usually attentive, well mostly, though, in my opinion, that last lecture on the Mount ran a little long. No doubt about it, he was good, so very good. You couldn’t help but love him. And it was all very impressive at...

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AN IMMINENT DISASTER BY DAVID SAPP

Now, now, now, an insistence, I’m presumed to be wise, automatic sage, thoughtful professor, though in my mind I’m ten, a nervous, bloodied nose little boy on the playground, or on more optimistic days, seventeen, a brash young...

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CHRISTMAS BY DAVID SAPP

Coincidentally, everything we knew came apart during the aftermath, the shame and anxiety, of Watergate. Dad, my little sister and I failed miserably in curbing events: bankruptcy, divorce, foreclosure, the loss of suburban...

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ATLANTIC BY DAVID SAPP

Flying over it makes no impression, an abstraction as if the atmosphere between is mountains, canyons, and savannas. Twice I confronted the Atlantic, awed by its chaotic power, its vast, terrifying breadth; the uncertainty of...

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FULL PLATE BY CAROL OBERG

Sensible things are Not always most sought Haven’t the sheer value Of yet another place setting I sit to order now online That will make 19 Nearly its age Of the Thanksgiving china Not yet to grace the table

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A ROUND HERE BY CAROL OBERG

The world is square Outside my screen door Two birds I can’t name Play tag chasing Touching, separating In the snap of a second   I’ve re-invented my living Alone with nothing Else to do now My nose breathing The sharp dank...

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CAN WE PREDICT THE FUTURE? BY MARIANNE LYON

She plunges into gloom.             Seems unlikely, no impossible she will climb out.             Room insists on blackened silence.             Even my stare becomes a struggle.   Empty rocking chair             near open...

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