Fall 2001, issue 8, what we were promised
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This is issue number Eight, Fall 2001.

He's still as tall as ever, the love of your life, not quite bearable up
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She wanted angels In her life, with prayers Like the soft movement Of birds,
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I'll create an ark out of origami
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Attempt
- Mitzi Miles-Kubota

Now That You?re Older
- Karen Stromberg

Near Sandia Peak
- Anthony Russell White

Deep Sea Angler
- Lisette Alonso

I Shall Make An Ark
- T. E. Ballard

Apothecary
- Rebecca Loudon

Talisman
- Jane Rice

Overall Light
- Francine Witte

Haiku for the Japanese
- Shaun Gant

Skeleton
- Scott Mignola

On Realizing The Sun Is Just a Star
- Francine Witte

A line of alternating ones & zeros
- John Burgess

Leg
- Philip Dacey

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

Aerialist
- Mark Yakich

Work
- Jeffrey Morgan

In Darkness it Flashes
- David Filer

The Red Arrow
- Catherine Conlan

Potential
- Lisa Gluskin

The Pancake Principle
- Martha Clarkson

Hilda
- Laura Bieber

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A jagged scar starts on the side of her neck where a right-handed person would naturally begin
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Driving at night, I reached across for the knee your skirt failed to cover
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$10 a year will get you membership in The Flat Earth Society including a map,
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