Fall 2001, issue 8, what we were promised
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This is issue number Eight, Fall 2001.

Every morning she places pills in tiny saucers. Cabbage Rose porcelain, a child?s English
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Above all this, above the flat roads hooded by willows, above the souped-up shadows
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When the torque of my desire becomes unbearable left hand closes and the clutch disengages
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The Sky Has Fallen and The Night Has Broke
- W. Joe Hoppe

Near Sandia Peak
- Anthony Russell White

A line of alternating ones & zeros
- John Burgess

Overall Light
- Francine Witte

Haiku for the Japanese
- Shaun Gant

Aerialist
- Mark Yakich

Talisman
- Jane Rice

On Realizing The Sun Is Just a Star
- Francine Witte

Work
- Jeffrey Morgan

Potential
- Lisa Gluskin

Skeleton
- Scott Mignola

Hilda
- Laura Bieber

Apothecary
- Rebecca Loudon

I Shall Make An Ark
- T. E. Ballard

Attempt
- Mitzi Miles-Kubota

Leg
- Philip Dacey

The Pancake Principle
- Martha Clarkson

In Darkness it Flashes
- David Filer

The Red Arrow
- Catherine Conlan

Now That You?re Older
- Karen Stromberg

Deep Sea Angler
- Lisette Alonso

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I spoon her ashes courage in the silver spoon, fill the Altoid?s tin empty of candy, smelling of
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One night my father drank so much bourbon that he turned into a skeleton.
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She wanted angels In her life, with prayers Like the soft movement Of birds,
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