JOHN HORVATH Jr
Black Dolphins Passing Alligator Point Beach
Had the sun been higher or
the wind a slight more brisk
I would not have sat still
in the dunes watching girls
attempt a modest tan on breasts.
I saw the dolphins pass
and realized how time has
come to pass me by; how once
much younger I might have cried
and pointed their direction. Now
an old man fearing detection,
I sat still, burnt bright red.
Red in the dunes along Alligator Point,
I felt the young women blossom
while sensing someone out here
possibly observing their maturing gestures.
Flaunt what you have: the wrinkles
are coming; the boys will be old men
burnt forever by too many summers.
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North Florida Poems by John Horvath Jr.
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JOHN HORVATH Jr | Southern Harmony
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MICHAEL DAVID COFFEY | Passages
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JOHN HORVATH Jr | Black Dolphins Passing Alligator Point Beach
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ANDREW MACARTHUR | Canto Jondo
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JOHN HORVATH Jr | Sinking into the Appalachicola National Forest
LAURA CLOSE | Restaurant
NICK BRUNO | The Art of Poetic Cleansing
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JOHN HORVATH Jr | Chameleon
*Now You See It... critique by LAURIE JOHN
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AURORA ANTONOVIC | Butterfly
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JOHN HORVATH Jr | Golden Triangle Lifemate Wanted
ABIGAIL B. CALKIN | How Boys Become Men
KAREN GODSON | Coming Out
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JOHN HORVATH Jr | Bottlecaps in the Blountstown JUNIOR FOODS Parking Lot
JIM BENNETT | Banshee
RUTH DAIGON | To Kiss the Earth
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JOHN HORVATH Jr | Appalachee Twister
SIMON PERCHIK | Star by Star
ANTHONY LICCIONE | When Death Strikes
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JOHN HORVATH Jr | Wewahitchka Vigilante Saves a South Miami Soul
MARTIN JERVIS | FALSE BLOOD
BETSY E. LISTER | Where Do Beautiful Souls Go
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JOHN HORVATH Jr | Rev. Terrebonne Preaches to the Deaf and Dumb of Grundy County
HAL SIROWITZ | Gifts
JAN OSCAR HANSON | A Wife Not Mine
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JOHN HORVATH Jr | Lost Soul Loses Life at the Shrine of the Florida Catholic Martyrs
DAVID BARNES | Central Station
JAN OSKAR HANSEN | Mother’s Vacation
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JOHN HORVATH Jr | Smuggler's Dream
KELLY JEAN WHITE | Wonder
CHRISTOPHER BARNES | Buster Keaton
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