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lynne steel - Florida, US

sea wind the moon i saw rise behind me now steady rain the lighthouse beam again and again backstroke the goodyear blimp floats overhead glowing jellyfish a beer bottle rolls off the pier driftwood the artist paints more than she sees lynne steel

Semi - California, US

Linked Zip#1 bound with twine...in a cedar chest ......letters home...from summer camp              on her plate...liver and onions...some stray peas .....public radio...classical music there's nothing...on TV Semi

Linked Zip#2  ....................from...the hallway        the steady tap-tap...of gramma's new walker parched grass...there's been so little rain...this season overpacked...a car rumbles down the road ....students...home from school Semi

Cindy Tebo -Missouri, US

my town, your town, usa Cindy Tebo Dittmer junkyard can't tell what I really need since the fence went up skull envy this pre-man less evolved than the others humpty dumpty accounting not all Bush's men can save wall street again hell on earth in triple digits out west weave by touch she can't see the rug she made back steps to the post office a cat asleep on its tail window shopping the street gets a new coat of rain yard by the tracks a kite caught up in a clothesline sun tea to rain tea a full jar cane-back chair the same squareness in grandma's shoulders arms stretched into wings my son keeps adding to the story home run trot a train rumbles past the baseball field sizing up the situation one sister lifts the other to reach the drinking fountain tomatotroplis it's a dream I have when everything's ripe mattress store a child trying out each one to find the bounciest mouth turned down at the corners even when she's smiling shotgun shack a chain moves without the porch swing tin roof town two houses and a few chickens in the front yard lilies on a grave no keeper but the sun and rain blue highway marker 3 wal-mart bags tied around some peach tree branches dot..to..dot..on..the..map..my..town..your..town..usa

Debra Woolard Bender - Florida, US

kutensils dinner knife a sesame seed in the butter steak knife the butcher's hairy hands salad fork four unsuccessful stabs at a hard crouton curled tines chime in the wind flattened dinner forks the weight of pecan pie on the end dessert fork tablespoon red cough syrup dripped on the chest ornate teaspoon sugar cubes in a crystal bowl baby spoon the silver rings her finger Debra Woolard Bender

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