by Martin Willitts Jr A dream fish flounders in my arms, light glints off its scales like Brahams’ Lullaby. I throw it back into the memory lake, but its weight
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Delusioner
by Richard Oyama Invisible Man meets Portnoy, the blurb raves. My property would be a multi-book deal, exclusive cable rights, Translation into 26 languages, Bridget Jones hosting the launch, Airport
Trading Sequences
by Richard Levine and Michael T. Young These poems were written in response to each other, following the jazz impr0vizational style called Trading Fours. Like jazz musicians improvising, keenly tuned
Coronation Chicken
by Maria Masington The regal name, so important sounding, that I ordered without reading the ingredients. It’s basically chicken salad. No pomp, no circumstance, just meat, apricots, mayonnaise, served cold. I felt the
Tell Me a Secret
by Matt Dennison I said from the tub as she knelt by the side stirring the water and she said, When I was a girl, before my breasts had grown,
Advice From a Dead Poet
by Gerald Wagoner Be precise, elegant, describe forces and vectors. Learn the arcane alchemy of memory as catalyst to imagination. The physics of the kinetic require you announce that windows
Sprung from Cages
by Gerald Yelle None of the sailors ate spinach and not many mutinied. The captain was a liar but he was no match for Queeg and forget Ahab, even if
Starting Them Early
by Matthew J. Spireng Free Caregiver Support Group: 11:30 a.m. Community Center, 3 Veterans Drive, New Paltz. Join Miss Penny for a fun-filled storytime for the very young. Appropriate for
The Crazy Ladies of Then
by Linda Lerner Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (first wife of T.S. Eliot) 5/28/88—1/22/’47 Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (wife of F Scott Fitzgerald) 7/24/1900—1/22/’48 I could have been one of those crazy
Translation
by Ellen Peckham This Sunday morning given to translations I find myself in tears reading a poem of my own but experienced afresh in Spanish. It recounts elements of your