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Update for 05.13.08:

Male Model by Phil Doran

Set to Replay by Willie Smith

Backsliding by Cynthia Ruth Lewis

Tree by G. David Schwartz

05.05.08:

Disintegration by Don Hucks

Five Feet and Building by Joel Van Noord

Grocery Aisle by Richard Lighthouse

Cross the Road by Ashok Niyogi

04.29.08:

Lookalikes by Phil Doran

Dinner by Brandi Wells

The Modern Covenant by Daniel E. Wilcox

Death by Onions by Michael Frissore

04.21.08:

Future's Children by Kimberly Raiser

Identity Theft by George Anderson

The Datists by Adam Engel

A Great Deal of Money by Justin Hyde

04.14.08:

Mr. Papaya and Dale by Eric Suhem

California by Caroline Imreibe

Aftermath of Vehement Argument #1,068 by Cynthia Ruth Lewis

Trip-Hammer Vitality by Lisa Nickerson

04.07.08:

The Florence of Basel, or Why Readers of Nietzsche Need to Read Burckhardt by Jeff Crouch

Slideshow by Miles J. Bell

Friends of the Poet by Sean C. Bowen

Picture Perfect by Leah Baldwin

03.24.08:

The Streak by Jeremy Hendrix

Grab Your Butts by Emme Hor

Far Away by Ashok Niyogi

Staring Down a White-Tailed Doe by Aleathia Drehmer

03.17.08:

The Hairbrush by Vernard Kennedy

Dog Days of Winter by Niall Berkeley

Poem From My Grave by Michael Lee Johnson

Mashed Potatoes and Hamburgers by Matt Finney

03.10.08:

Hard Work by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

Jetty Cake Pigs by J.D. Nelson

I'm Quiet in Bed by Moctezuma Johnson

Tequila Shakes by Richard Lighthouse

Trip-Hammer Vitality

by Lisa Nickerson

"Stammering is the native eloquence of us fog people."

for Anais, June & Henry

inside the fog, gods unroll their holy tongues
across the Hudson lapping Manhattan

and eventually it will rain.  the poets poem the clear drops
running off the frizzled curls of downtown taxi girls
and the girls rain time in lovestorms their kissclocks chime
with dime-a-dance dance tickets clicking anklestrapheels on
early morning ball-room tile while workmen pull pocket-watches
from their rippedpantspockets hurrying to their jobs high
on the scaffolding building hardfruit

 

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Lisa Nickerson's poems have appeared in Clockwise Cat, The Cerebral Catalyst and upcoming in Snow Monkey's Spring 2008 print journal. Her poem "le jardin for ezra pound" won an Honorable Mention in the Florida Chapter of the Gwendolyn Brook's Poetry Competition and was published in Revelry 2006 & 2007. She continues to receive more rejections than acceptances and will soon have the downstairs 1/2 bath wallpapered. She lives on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

posted 04.14.08.

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