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Poetry - Year III - Number 15 - August 2018

    OLD SCHOOL by Tony Tracy

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    OLD SCHOOLby Tony Tracy Physiography The phenomenon is irrefutable; a true scientificand earthly wonder, mathematical improbabilitythat leaves scholars of astrology scratching their heads to explain, and pundits of scripture andChristianity gawking through their $10 cardboardsunglasses as midday light...

    THE STORY OF LIFE by Linda Casebeer

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    THE STORY OF LIFEby Linda Casebeer  The story of life We could feel the evening falling around usthough it was noon when clouds covered the sunabove the chapel lit only by natural lightfiltering through the windowsand...

    WRITER’S WORKSHOP by Martin Willitts

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    WRITER’S WORKSHOPby Martin Willitts Writer’s Workshop Write what you know, the professor suggested; but what if you’ve forgotten every piece of informationyou’ve ever known? What if you’ve crossed an intersectionof your life and you realize you’re lost,...

    TEARBLANKET by Reuben Ellis

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    TEARBLANKETby Reuben Ellis  Tearblanket To alter flesh, use the deciduous catclaw,the spiculumed acacia, tearblanketitscommon name, unpronounceable in  ambiguity.  I could describe it to you,three-thorned, polygamous flowers, pinnatepods, but you will know it because you willbe bleeding...

    SHROUD FOR A SOUL by María Agustina Pardini

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    SHROUD FOR A SOULby María Agustina Pardini Shroud For A Soul His soul shrieked atThe touch of the cold iron bars,Confined, existing in vain,Sentenced, living in pain.Elated by a diurnal shaft of light,Soon to be dismissed...

    AFTER THE RAIN by Jack Brown

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    AFTER THE RAINby Jack Brown  AFTER THE RAIN The squirrels told herit was safe to talk with me.Birds who protected her beforegave their approval.They look after their own.Wearing ribbons of struggleshe beckoned with woundsand wonder. Seekingthe...

    BORROW by Mike Li

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    BORROWby Mike Yunxuan Li  BorrowMike is not my name,I told you.I borrowed it from Bibleto roam the land of Uncle Sam.It’s my tuxedo and pasta,a manbehind which the I hid and ate,slept, woke and educated.Shame...

    AT THE TEMPLE OF THE MUSIC GOD by Felix Purat

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    AT THE TEMPLE OF THE MUSIC GODby Felix Purat Memories of Baja California in Crete Above the submarine chamber of Aegean AtlantisRugged slopes of the Sierra Giganta riseMy friend back then was indeed AnubisAn actual friend,...