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Read more: A forgotten Constellation
by J. Scott Grimes July 14, 2012. I’ve currently got ten stitches. They’re all over my body. One here, another one there. A hurried spray of stars. Maybe, from a great distance, they form a forgotten constellation. There just aren’t as many intrepid Greek sailors as there used to be. That makes it difficult to…
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Read more: Block
by J. Scott Grimes I couldn’t write in my bedroom or at the kitchen table, so I booked a flight to Africa and found that Café Haffa’s famous tea is just mint and boiling hot water to which I had to add far too much cheap white sugar to enjoy and that I couldn’t write…
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Read more: Lace
by Sheila E. Murphy Lace, distaste for the simplicityarrived until I could hold stilljust as I was, astridethe terror of change.I fluted my way to starsI had not known, I reachedfor your sense of hearing,the one that lifted meto what we were togetherwhat we are and what wewill be named untilthe terrible drive into awaylearning…
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Read more: Molto Allargando
by Sheila E. Murphy I practice tasting the lifespan of the tone I punctuate with tongue. Page turner lifts the page, I hold the stage. Whole notes resist the space confining them. I fill the flute with breath and feel the mind let go. Savor passage slow perfuming intact viscous lines of chant. This woodwind…
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Read more: The Smell of Grass
by Duane Anderson She said I smelled like grass,but what a surprise, smelling like grassafter being outside for an houredging, trimming, and mowing the grass.What was I supposed to smell like,a plate of chocolate chip cookies,fresh baked bread,hot cinnamon rolls,a bouquet of roses?Made me wonder what I should do the next time I worked on…
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Read more: Twisted
by Frank William Finney Twirling wordsis all the rage:I spin mine off the forkand page.I twirl the linesaround the tinesand gum themlike fusilli. Frank William Finney is a poet from Massachusetts. A joint winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry, his poems have been published by Blue Unicorn, Compass Rose, Underscore Magazine, The Wise…
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