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January 2012 / VolumFourand TwenTy

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1. i began to speak pomegranates

k r

2. training hard

J C h Y

3. belief

b J

4. notes to a future self

d Cw

5. *

d C. k-m

6. bushtit

k s

7. *

C ow

8. angels

d.W. C

9. moment

p m

10. butterflY

s sz

11. resolution 2

J i

12. i bled from everY Wound

k r

13. John, disfigured

d Cw

14. *

k s

15. *

C ow

16. spent speeCh

e h

17. Clouded

k p

18. CroW

p m

19. buttons

s.m. a

20. iCe

s sz

21. tidal Wav

s C

22. haiku

h bc

23. thundersto

tcy d

24. piano

Jc bw

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rESOluTiON 2

scale the page like a mountainside

and crack whiteness with your pen,

a driving chisel

wave rom the top

JuliE iS

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ibEgaNTOSpEakpOmEgraNaTES

scotch broom, sand dollars;

they gained substance

as ootprints do in the rain.

kriSTiN rOE

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TraiNiNghard

Rotting yellow gloves

Wrapped rmly on wrinkled hands

Piercing broken leather

JOEl ChuahiaNg Y

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bEliEf

Has watching white wagtails keep

year ater year

to their migratory date

made me believe in promises?

bharaTi JagaNNa

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NOTESTOafuTurESElf

Upon the scrawl o high school notes

the highlighters marks are jagged:

saw-like, likely because

I was laughing so hard.

darrEN Craw

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buShTiT

Small round-bellied bird

on springs, traveling in your dark

undulating cloud o kin and whistles

Hello! Goodbye!

karEN STrOm

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*

Beore that they were

arms, legs, eet, hands, eyes, a voice.

Ater, only, lips.

CaThEriNE O

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aNgElS

Teir eortless fight

and lack o metabolite,

whereas we were panting

ater gallivanting.

d.w. CuNNiNg

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buTTErflY

Butterfy on mind

Eyes glitter, look to the sky

Little girl takes fight

STEvE Sh

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iblEdfrOmEvErYwOuNd

Te blood o women is common;

i every exsanguination was

raised up, the entire earth

would be disinterred.

kriSTiN rOE

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JOhN, diSfigurEd

He shattered the bathroom mirror

expecting to destroy his likeness

instead assembling a thousand

more glaring eyes.

darrEN Craw

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*

red-gold Krugerrand

hal eaten

smog moon

karEN STrOm

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piaNO

Skeletal ngers banging

into the temple o ivory and coal.

As quiet as a blue monk,

I hear them pray.

JaCk br

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haiku

dark morning

the debris o the bird house

a distant crow

hElEN buCkiNg

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SpENTSpEECh

What might be mispronounced

at this ar distance:

but I am eager to nd

what words will rescue me.

Ed hig

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ClOudEd

It did not rain.

wo cats cry rom pavement to pavement.

kuShal pO

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CrOw

crow descending

black fared

eathers weighted

with my meaning

pETEr maS

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iCE

Her voice is ice

clinking in my glass;

I need a rell.

STEvE Sh

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ThuNdErSTOrm

Waiting or the next crack

o the whip

on my bare fesh

he rests his arm.

TraCYdavi

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*

And now? She didnt

plant that one red poppy, but

there it is. And now?

CaThEriNE O

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Jack Brown is a musical, visual, and literary artist rom Detroit. He has poems orthcoming in Eunoia

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Helen Buckingham specializes in writing Japanese style short-orm poetry. Her work has takeawards and has been published in several collections, her latest being a combination o short orm an

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Joel Chua Hiang Yanghas had his poetry published in Moving Words 2011: A Poetry Anthology,placed in three competitions under The British Council, emerging as winner in one o them.

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Sarah Crossland received a BA in Storytelling rom the University o Virginia. She is currently an MFdate in Poetry at the University o Wisconsin-Madison, where she is the managing editor oDevils Lak

D.W. Cunningham has published airly widely. His poem angels is an example o a orm he inventa Bivalve, which prescribes line number, line length, end rhyme, progressive verb tense, etc.

Tracy Davidson lives in Warwickshire, England, and enjoys writing poetry and ash fction. Her workpeared in various publications including Modern Haiku, Mslexia, Moonbathing, Ribbons, and Notes from th

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Kristin Roedell was nominated or DZANC Best o the Web, 2010, and the Pushcart Prize, 2010. Sauthor oSeeing in the Dark(Tomato Can Press 2009) and Girls With Gardenias (Flutter Press, 2011).

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