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RINGO BY CYNDI CRESSWELL COOK

“Is this one Ringo?” my sister, twelve years old, asked our brother Keith, who was fourteen. She was holding out a glossy page from her Teen Talk magazine. “You’re so stupid,” Keith replied and slumped back against the blue...

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SNOWFALL BY VIRGINIA WATTS

That morning was made all the worse because it had snowed the night before. Flakes that fell slow and parallel to the ground, as if they were laying themselves down. Arriving with a shared intention. Maybe to give my young...

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TO MY UNBORN CHILD BY MARIANNE LYON

What I want to tell you is that you are enough you do not have to do anything to be loved you do not have to perform or achieve or earn a merit badge this needs to be repeated over and over be who you are love what is before you...

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ODE TO HIS GRIN BY MARIANNE LYON

Out of steadfast sorrow you grin a gallant grin brave perfect a constellation just born in velvet sky you grin a generous grin dripping hidden honey nectar sweet delight sugars my eyes candies my open heart Out of woeful grief...

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ODE TO PASSAGES BY MARIANNE LYON

Journeys wonderous journeys your essence holds portals steel tracks no compass can escape pine forests torn open by lightening salty oceans weathering storms Expedition after epic expedition I remember buoyant canoes butterflies...

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EFFLORESCENCE BY DIANNE SILVESTRI

Each Tuesday evening a few of us gather in a remote room at the rear of the empty church to learn and rehearse writing poetry. The red-haired lady arrives this week, her left hand cradling an ostrich-sized egg on a thick green...

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HUMMINGBIRD BY DIANNE SILVESTRI

Dynamo, sprite, who hangs in space, a blur of lace, diphthong of grace, quivering tutu of fanning wings, you whirrer who stares into the eyelashes of my pink rhododendron, you start, you stop, you lift, you drop, you dart and...

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THE CHEAT RIVER BY KAREN MCAFERTY MORRIS

I imagine your last few minutes. The group of helmeted kayakers bumping and gliding down the river, swift even in autumn, white waves curling toward you like an ocean, water at the mercy of ages-old rocks, and that’s why you...

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END OF DAYS BY KAREN MCAFERTY MORRIS

Religions foretell the end of days with signs– of a western sunrise, of a sky with seven suns, of the moon and sun vanishing, forebodings, fears, tribulations, the menace of armies surrounding Jerusalem, then a new age of...

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VIGIL BY KAREN MCAFERTY MORRIS

A rare snow began falling, so she woke us at midnight. Shivering on the stiff whitening grass, heads bent back, we watched the black sky. Flakes strafed down from an invisible, benign celestial machine. Three generations of us...

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