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OPAL PALMER ADISA Bouquet of Herbs the first time she remembered truly smelling basil oregano chives and lavender the tears rolled unchecked down her cheeks she was no older than seven and she remembered her dream standing in the kitchen taking off the lid of the pot and finding a miniature replica of herself giggling unscathed in the boiling water that very day she blended the four herbs and made a soup her family still refers to as sweet fingers --- copyright OPAL PALMER ADISA REPAIR: Concourse or confluence of people at or in a place; resort, frequent or habitual going; making one's way; to arrive; to dwell; to heal, to cure, to recover; to renew; (AND!) to fix to original condition. Oxford English Dictionary

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LYN LIFSHIN ALL ABOUT ME Writers' Conference Brochure Sunny in the new flyer. Everybody's smiling, writing under the trees. It doesn't rain, there are no lack flies. Flowers in bloom. No one can see the poet who will black ball you when you're not interested in his bed. Pine smell and night birds camouflage the novelist who packs in the night, moans "if I don't get out of here I'll become an alcoholic or gay. In the photographs, the giddy cradle their paper babies. It's like a Christmas card of the Happy Family before news of any truth leaks out --- copyright LYN LIFSHIN ALL ABOUT ME poetryREpairs.com welcomes your essay on a topic related to poetry.

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JEFFREY C. ALFIER Reflection at an Abandoned Silo -- Complex 571-5, Madera Canyon, Arizona Under this desert moon night drains poison from me... Strange to think at one time suspicion built bombers and men of power dreamed this landscape into glass. --- copyright JEFFREY C. ALFIER. "Reflection at an Abandoned Silo" was previously published on poetryREpairs 02.01:008 'all the fine arts are species of poetry'

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