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JOHN HORVATH Jr : Answering Weekday Doorbells
BRUCE DODSON : Freeway Incident
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JOHN HORVATH Jr
Answering Weekday Doorbells
Devil in a pink suit scrapes red clay from her instep at your doorway purse bulged with recent souls collected here and there going door to door smiling suggestions that she can fulfill your needs with her huge mounds of mammary glands protruded from her push-up cups painted lips kissing each word mouthed luxuries housewives must imagine when they imagine themselves with some soap opera honey square jawed star handsome young perfect phrases meat tough as out of a freezer to thaw before cooked half raw to be eaten with loneliness spices; or, the devil appears to set up parties in the home where you will sell plastic wares lonely housewives would forever find useful thousands of uses for small squares and rounds always somehow lids lost first; and, for stay at home men such as myself priceless sex never in her catalog. Today my devil wore black with thick mobile suggestively hungry lips her flesh hot from hell summer and she sweats midday under a hot sun and wants only to drink fresh water to cool a while so I in my kitchen fetching ice imagine her already naked on my sofa so that I shall return not boy shocked but debonair my hair wetted under faucet slicked back attempting to remember what best word most quickly removes clothing. Sometimes, the devil only wants water. Sometimes, witnesses at that doorbell deny their thirst rebuke water offerings.

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BRUCE DODSON
Freeway Incident
October dawn illuminates green flatlands Where the Mississippi and Missouri rivers join Enormous copper disk floats gently on blue haze That lingers over fields of winter wheat. Long V-shaped flights of geese make their way south As cars and people sail the concrete ribbons On their way to this day's labors Bright chrome streaming brilliant glitter on the freeway Workers pass the rising sun Eternal planet incident.   Traffic slows some miles beyond the city But I'm early Filled with energy and life Still in my thirties Safe within the steel and plastic womb of my old car The hours of work are many Those I call my own too few.   A siren reveilles me from these morning thoughts As rescue trucks streak by . . . lights flashing Blue and red proclaim and accident ahead Now barely moving we pass twisted metal Shattered glass And blood Medics are excavating victims from their crumpled cages.   Passers-by are stalled Observing and somehow removed This tragic scene Sun gaining strength on rising Burning off the softness of this day A helicopter hovers to survey the damage AM radio relays the news – KMOX Two dead Their folks don't know yet.   Uniformed State Troopers wave us on impatiently Keep moving, they admonish Gawkers slowing traffic Keep it moving There's no time to look Or think Just keep it moving.

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American expatriot BRUCE DODSON no lives in Sweden. His most recent work has appeared in: High Coupe, Sleeping Cat Books-Trips of a Lifetime, Sounds of Solace, Northern Liberties Review, and Writers Abroad Anthology – 2014.


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JAN OSKAR HANSEN | A Sea Dirge
POETRYREPAIRS | Submissions
WARD KELLEY | Pushing, Pushing
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ARTHUR C FORD Sr | Love of Woman
KIRBY WRIGHT | Kahala Beach 2016
RICHARD VALLANCE | Falls ... Les Chutes
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CHRISTINA PACOSZ | No Time for More
MICHAEL DAVID COFFEY | Blood upon the Snow
MARIE KAZALIA | some coffee sometimes
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JOHN HORVATH Jr | Frank's Priest
ROBERT P. BEVERIDGE | Crushed
RICHARD VALENCE | Falls [in linear ENGLISH to facilitat reading]
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TOMAR JACKSON : Land of Roses
CAROLE NELSON PHILLIPS : Choices of a Depressive
RICHARD VALLANCE : Les Chutes'[version française du poème en alinéa afin de faciliter la lecture]
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DOUG PAUGH | No More Ass to Kiss
MICHAEL DAVID COFFEY | Passages
ASHOK GUPTA | Dadaji
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MICHAEL LEE JOHNSTON | Maple Tree Night and Snowy Visitors
ANNALYNN HAMMOND | Revelations
MEGAN WEBSTER | Shavings
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TERRY WOLVERTON | Humid
WENDY HAMMOND & MATTHEW RETOSKE | Pictureshow
CHARLES P RIES | Be Anything with Me
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R L SWIHART | Report
LYN LIFSHIN | A Wet Cold Winter to Come the Paper Says
APRYL FOX | Hair Saloon On Alberta Street
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VERNON WARING | almost home
ROBIN OUZMAN HISLOP | A Rounded Character
JASON VISCONTI | When One Loses the Image of Oneself
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MICHAEL ESTABROOK | Old Thing
ANNALYNN HAMMOND | Because We're Dying
SHALINI RAO | Of Late
MARION deVOS | Baltimore from the Train
SUE LITTLETON | On Haiku
RICHARD ZOLA. | the river...yes...if it hadnt rained maybe...3
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of the soul - Plato

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