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The New Verse News presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues. Submission Guidelines: Send previously unpublished poems in the body of an email to nvneditor@yahoo.com OR to nvneditor@gmail.com. Use "Verse News Submission" as the subject line. Send a brief bio. No payment. Authors retain all rights after 1st-time appearance here. Scroll all the way down left to read the fine print.

Thursday, April 01, 2010

SEVENLING: DEPLOYED

by Suellen Wedmore


He drove to New Hampshire to adopt
an abused dog,  he loved cheese-steak sandwiches
and the South Woods.

He walked away from those who ranted
and lied, disliked down time,
white wine, and vegetables in cans.

. . . And last month they sent him to Afghanistan.  


Poet Laureate Emerita for the small seaside town of Rockport, Suellen Wedmore has won first place in the Writer's Digest Rhyming poetry Contest and in the Greyson Press annual chapbook contest.  Her chapbook On Marriage and Other Parallel Universes was recently published by Finishing Line Press.

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