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L.B. SEDLACEK Animal Shadows Interior of the mouth. Teeth once sharp and thirsty for the taste of blood. Soul that looks inward and through metal bars receiving scraps from buckets, and stares from strangers. Forced to rest upon unfamiliar grass when sleeping then waking up to a different sky, unknown smells, confined paths. Cries blend with other cries, howls on the landscape molded by man: none of them bloodthirsty. All of them able to ignore a wayward child or hand that gets too close when taking a picture of what they think is an animal in a cage – once brave and strong; now: reduced to shadows. North Carolina L.B. SEDLACEK's poetry has appeared in numerous publications such as "HazMat Review," "Grit," "Lite," and "Andwerve."

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DANIELLE MOFFAT Classroom Boredom (poetryrepairshop 99.11:127 ) Deep thought combined with a higher state of mentality Rhetorical questions posed and wait, demand an answer Lines, together and happy, on a hard white surface While confusion spreads like a wave through the onlookers. The omniscient drones on through time Filling black holes with hard facts and more lines Creating a structured harmony in the once void, Now filled space that we called imagination. Never-ending seconds tick over a lifetime in an hour Sour smelling fumes of black ink rising up like heat waves Fat letters rest lazily on the lines in their happy order And wait expectantly for an amazing revelation. While the sciences proclaim the empirical as actual, FELIU and SULLIVANshow disdain/distaste at chaotic learning and the unique, individuated experience of it . I have long held that college "English" departments should be scrapped a a first step is re-educating education. Except for grammar, everything done in the "English" classroom can be done elsewhere in college...from "period studies" moved into history departments to 'psychological' analysis moved to its clear owner.

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