"I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee..."

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L. WARD ABEL I See The Property I see the property. All around me small fires pop,             douse to nothing, then rekindle as if purposely choosing to flame out-of-concert: chaotic, countering, reacting only to the others. This world so far from the world I knew, pockmarked with remnants of glory, of songs, leavings that give little comfort within the shadows they cast. I cannot dance in these shadows I cannot sing anew. Charred flaked hymnal pages scatter tunes, thermals carry off and up, smoky crows are joined ultimately resting out-of-sound and crumpled. Here, my blue voiceis red, the color of sunset. ©2007 L. WARD ABEL

Poetry endangers the established order in the soul."

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BARBARA F. LEFCOWITZ Another Grammar Lesson More devoutly each day I believe I'm a dangling modifier a queen without subjects the piano in a school for the deaf When mornings bait me back to sleep with dream-hooks I add to my list the black pearl that Cleopatra crushed in her wine the arm that fell off the Venus de Milo all of which surpass being an adjective stuck like a burr to its noun a subject still searching for Queens wherever Brooklyn ends or begins deaf in the presence of a piano Venus de Milo ogled by flashbulbs but fall well short of life as a transitive verb ordering all of its objects my hands pressing into song that piano's keys releasing the Venus de Milo from chisels and hammers her marble still warm. ©2007 BARBARA F. LEFCOWITZ

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KAREN GODSON Shame Shame My eyes stared blankly through the slime-covered glass, at the human river on the boulevard. I noticed three Muslim women walking past, marching with their heads concealed in silken scarves. Modest but demanding to be heard, they held home made signs of Bristol board condemning Bush for his oil addiction and I swallowed hard. As I looked away my shame made my face flush. Shame that I was not out there walking with them, and that I hadn't known about it before now. I scribbled a mental note to get off here on my way back from my appointment downtown. As the streetcar stopped at the intersection, I noticed a bend in the walking queue. The huge crowd surged right, up University. Instinctively I looked up the Avenue to the mouth of the river, where it became a vast sea of Anti-war demonstrators. The police were amassed behind City Hall, with their myriad of police-horse trailers. Proceeding west on Queen Street, while looking back I chastised myself for my own ignorance. " Never mind not knowing this was going on. Shame on you for not having organized it!" ©2007 KAREN GODSON

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