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Mickey Black
I Used to Cry Over You, Then Longed for Your Tears
I Used to Cry Over You, Then Longed for Your Tears Motherhood hit me Like a lightening fast bullet train— Through projectile vomiting and te...
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Martha Ellen Johnson
Listening to Catherine
Listening to Catherine “Grammy, let’s fly away.” We are sitting on the top step of the second floor staircase. Down the hall is her magical ...
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Diane Funston
Karol Nielsen
World Traveler
World Traveler After my father left the army, he earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Nebraska. His firs...
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Jeannette Zallar
Margaret Plaganis
Sam Rabinowitz
When You Have to Say Good-bye
When You Have to Say Good-bye So many times when I was young I needed help and you were there A gentle smile, a tender touch A soothing hug ...
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Cheryl Panosian
Siren’s Song
Siren’s Song You turned over the controls old boat, steering wheel gripped by my sweaty palms wheel tighter than cars boat barely moves. ...
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Evie Groch
A Language No One Spoke
A Language No One Spoke She was a winter solstice whose bleakness spread depression. She was a melody sung off-key that couldn’t correct its...
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Charles R Vermilyea Jr
Let's Hear It for the Italians
Let's Hear It for the Italians Part I: The Americones To Italians of little English, American is Americone . My father was an “Americone...
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James Duncan
"The Shortest Farewells are the Best"
"The Shortest Farewells are the Best" I see the ghosts of noir tv radiating across the nighttime hours, sepia accumulations that...
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John Grey
Melanie Civin Kenion
Listening to the Spode Bowl
Listening to the Spode Bowl I dropped the bowl, the sound of the crack, the shatter hitting the floor. The bowl, Spode, blue and white fine...
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Kristan LaVietes
Mother's Day
Mother's Day Yesterday I bought a souvenir to send to you, a woven-grass hummingbird. But the bottom fell out of my shopping bag, and I ...
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Joan Hagy
Washington House
Washington House let this house explain the muddled painful parts the evergreen bushes out front provide backdrop for numerous Easter p...
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Marilyn E Johnston
Catching a Lure
Catching a Lure Countless strokes of overlapping fish-scales, silver-lacquered, polished to a high shine; on the dowel grasped between his i...
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Geri Radasci
Praise the Old Country Immigrants
Praise the Old Country Immigrants I kept my hand over my heart as a Pledge to parents from the Old Country refusing to scrap the foreign to...
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Nancy Lubarsky
The Backyard
The Backyard We’ve made some far-off plans, time markers for when we need to leave— when our son moves out, when our dog’s body no longer ho...
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Diane Funston
A Dazzling Illusion
A Dazzling Illusion Driving in pouring night rain, outside lights merge together in kaleidoscope angles, not unlike bold abstract paintings....
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LindaAnn LoSchiavo
The Closet as She Left It
The Closet as She Left It Deprived by his wife’s absence, grieving guts My father. The cremation over now, Her ashes urned and glowing with...
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The poets in this collection have put words on their love to honor those who have passed and to honor those whom they love here and now. This collection is a celebration of life as it explores the experiences of loved lives.
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