Fall 2001, issue 8, what we were promised
Welcome to Gumball Poetry's Eighth issue of poetry in gumball machines and on the web. May 19, 2012
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This is issue number Eight, Fall 2001.

Born in Sosnowice, Petrokowski province, Poland, 1896. Not a scrap of paper,
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He's still as tall as ever, the love of your life, not quite bearable up
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No getting away from the world, at least for now: even on the good days it's wash and backwash, a humus of cigarette
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Potential
- Lisa Gluskin

Work
- Jeffrey Morgan

Hilda
- Laura Bieber

Apothecary
- Rebecca Loudon

Near Sandia Peak
- Anthony Russell White

Haiku for the Japanese
- Shaun Gant

The Sky Has Fallen and The Night Has Broke
- W. Joe Hoppe

The Pancake Principle
- Martha Clarkson

Overall Light
- Francine Witte

Aerialist
- Mark Yakich

The Red Arrow
- Catherine Conlan

In Darkness it Flashes
- David Filer

On Realizing The Sun Is Just a Star
- Francine Witte

A line of alternating ones & zeros
- John Burgess

Skeleton
- Scott Mignola

I Shall Make An Ark
- T. E. Ballard

Now That You?re Older
- Karen Stromberg

Leg
- Philip Dacey

Attempt
- Mitzi Miles-Kubota

Talisman
- Jane Rice

Deep Sea Angler
- Lisette Alonso

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I spoon her ashes courage in the silver spoon, fill the Altoid?s tin empty of candy, smelling of
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She wanted angels In her life, with prayers Like the soft movement Of birds,
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Despite the cold wind the hoya keeps blooming busy, safe, indoors
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