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I've been gathering
bouquets of feathers
To sew into gloves
to soften my touch
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March wind spins the vane,
flattens petals down on the yellow zoysia, emits dread without direction.
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So much about breathing
and the body. Soon the stars will come and we will know them as well as we know each other.
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Artwork by Tom Lechner


I watched you
on the Northbound red. All silence. The walls rung down across the bell of the light. Is it brilliant?
Not yet.

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Winter 2000: Congratulations. We're all still here. The date-thingy has safely passed. And poetry is still hot, hot, hot. Not sure what to read? Try out the supra ultra magic poetry randomizer below.


La Specialite de la Maison
- Philip Dacey
Stellar
- Mary Fisher
3 poems from the series:
Pornography: Soft Core

- Greg Purcell
Cold
- Greg Purcell
Everest, June, 1996
- Sue Swartz
At Palisades Nuclear Power Plant
- Barbara Spring
Showdown
- Trampas Johnson
Old Butte Rat
- Ed Lahey
Morning Tai Chi at Memorial Park
- David Cowen
Go, Then
- Catherine Daly
Lonely wharf fisherman...
- Angelica Melendez
Stepping Into Fresh Pond
- Angelica Melendez
Secret Friendships
- Alex Shafer
Return Address
- Eric Dutton
The Dark Haired Woman Next Door
- Duane Locke
3 poems - Narcissus
- Duane Locke
Sonnet for M.H.
- Mark Podojil
Big Poison
- David P. Kozinski
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Cheaper than a phone call...
Smarter than a prescription...
Tastier than a tire iron...
Y2K Compatible:
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What I see in this pond
Is Sadness staggering
On the arc of my eyelashes
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A friend of mine
mailed me his liver with a note that says "The rest is soon to come"
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Artwork by Tom Lechner

It is the deadliest season
since the climbing began, storms claiming twelve with puzzling vengeance.
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Artwork by Tom Lechner
Winning Quotes from the Y2K Thoughts contest:
In the future you will be much younger today than you are then.
- Toni Asante Lightfoot
It will amount to virtually nothing. I better win because I am right!
- Roy Moulton

100101101000
110101011001.
Dig?
- Bingo Montoya
I hope sex is Y2K compliant. That would suck if it wasn't.
- Mark Podojil
What I look forward to most in the next millennium is turning 1027.
- Mark Podojil
In retrospect, I guess it doesn't really start until 2001.
- Neil McKay





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