Sunday, September 30, 2007

ELEVEN

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by Joanne Lowery Finally, after ten appeals in twenty-five years, he is proclaimed innocent and set free. Because of test tubes and microsco...
Saturday, September 29, 2007

THE YEAR OF IRAN

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by Bill Costley [newspoem] One ambassador in Washington said even he was taken aback to hear John Hannah, VPOTUS CHENEY’s national security ...
Friday, September 28, 2007

HOUSEWORK

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by David Chorlton From the safety of our breakfast we observe a line of monks passing like fire across the television screen so early in the...
Thursday, September 27, 2007

MAY WE BE FREE OF TORTURE

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by Mary Saracino 30,000 maroon robes wafting in the wake of oppression, red tongues of wisdom chanting, “May we be free of torture.” 30,000 ...

MY SHOWERHEAD SINGS

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by Dave Seter My showerhead sings some mornings, releases water confined long underground in mazes of cylinders cankered with rust. We city ...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

GLOBAL DIMMING

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by Joe Paddock It is said that those smokestack particulates that rise to dirty our skies and cloud our lungs form a second sooty shield abo...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

50-30=20 (YEARS)

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by Katherine West There is a picnic table There is a liter of wine There is a pipe There is bad spaghetti and not enough of it The bread is ...
Monday, September 24, 2007

MAN SURVIVES FALL FROM 17TH FLOOR

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by Rochelle Ratner He'd been out with friends. He was drunk. He was in a Minneapolis Hyatt. He was running down a long hallway with a do...
Saturday, September 22, 2007

PICASSO, 1963, AT THE BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

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by Liane Ellison Norman for Andy, September 3, 2007 Painted the year our son was born, the year         after we married, the year the Bud...

A WILE E. COYOTE ROCKET

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by Frank Sloan warm, muggy night. Todd Tihart safely home in bed. all his aides and analysts and speech writers         resting comfortably ...
Friday, September 21, 2007

CONFOUNDED

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by Barbara Daniels Shadow of a woman in a glass porch, white dress gone rose in the sunset, light burning up from a red porch swing, vines c...
Thursday, September 20, 2007

OBAMA NATION

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by Earl J. Wilcox Presidential candidate, Senator Obama, arrived in town today, an entourage of media twerps tagging along to swell the crow...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

SOME WOMEN JUST GIVE UP

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by Diane Kendig Some women just give up—they refuse to wear makeup or color their hair and end up looking more like a grandmother than a mot...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

HEADLINERS & LEGENDS

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by Aaron O. Gillego O J Simpson gets arrested as Hillary Clinton unveils her universal health care plan. It’s 1994 and my father sits there...