RALPH MONDAY : Born in 1956
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RALPH MONDAY
Born in 1956
Born in 1956 this nostalgic longing for the 50s has been triggered, I suppose, by the recent passing of my aunt and uncle, both who came of age in the 50s and who helped rear me with those values that I only came to know in retrospect. They lie entombed together as dead as the soda and sockhop principles, passing away, forgotten specters, finality as solid as fin de siècle. Now, I love a woman who embodies none of those philosophies. her slant a postmodern trope while I listen to the faint, fading song of enlightenment modernity. The era an American reality, a neighborhood sepulchered drugstore pulsing over the misbegotten progressive airwaves that centers me like a future excavated time capsule, an other dug up, anachronistic curiosity, bloomed forth from a withered time. Yet, I am not Christian, and save for an amour that possesses me, I am as concrete as Jeffers' rock. Perhaps that is my value. And, when future races crack open the narrative of her generation's males, will they find that pill spit out, empty, like a cracked Mesopotamian urn, dry sand, sterile, no redemptive banner, only the stale odor, like Hemingway's frozen leopard, of a time, lost, faded away?
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MICHAEL ESTABROOK | Apparition
RICHARD FEIN  | Dead Wires
CHERYL SNELL | The Memory of All That
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CAROL SHILLIBEER | Eurdyice Running For the Pass
CALEB RICKETS | i Travel
VAL MAGNUSON | Eclipse
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TERRY WOLVERTON | The hardest thing about loneliness
STEVE CROSS | Recital
ANJANA BASU | Three Green Leaves
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R. L. SWIHART | Recipe (Sort of)
MARYANN HAZEN-STEARNS | I Must Be Ice
ALEX STOLIS  | Insomniac
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HAL SIROWITZ | The Moon Got in the Way
EVAN DASHEVSKY | Zen Pee
SAM VAKNIN  | Narcissism
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VERNON WARING | A Death on Elm Street
BILL CARROLL  | Trains
PRASENJIT MAITI | 1999
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A. D. WINANS | Tenderloin Cafeteria Poem
ASHOK GUPTA | Don't Make Mistakes
RUTH MARK | Ballymena United at the Oval: Saturdays in the 1970s
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TANJA BARTEL | Marilyn Monroe and the Soldiers
LYN LIFSHIN | New England Sunday
JOHN SELAWSKY | April
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DOUG PAUGH | No More Ass To Kiss
JOHN HORVATH JR | April's Leaving
BARBARA F. LEFCOWITZ  | The Grandmother's Escape
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LESLEY VALDES | Thief!
WARD KELLEY | The Visuals of It
NANCY HAIDUCK | The Fat Lady Sings
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KIRBY WRIGHT | Sea Cliff Man
JARRETT FULTON  | Only Skin Deep
MICK KENNEDY | Terre Haute
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JANET I. BUCK | Blackberry Vines
PEGGY MEEKS-KING | Japanese Butterfly (Tanka)
YVONNE MORRIS | Island in the Sun

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JOHN HORVATH JR
April's Leaving
When you have gone never to see me again there will come many tongues thicker than mine jabbing education into you with proposition date and theory Do not reject, do not turn from education; You will have my tongue my caressing undertones to releave your anxieties, here, between your thighs. Listen cautiously; the calm stream of you will become rapids crashing to the sea of forgetting me though I first discovered this ravine that rinsed so eagerly.
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RALPH MONDAY : Born in 1956
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JOHN HORVATH JR : April's Leaving
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