Fall 2001, issue 8, what we were promised
Welcome to Gumball Poetry's Eighth issue of poetry in gumball machines and on the web. March 12, 2010
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This is issue number Eight, Fall 2001.

you begin to understand the dead? how they leave their clothes in your closet:
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Driving at night, I reached across for the knee your skirt failed to cover
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A line of alternating ones & zeros, Signals, power grids,
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Leg
- Philip Dacey

I Shall Make An Ark
- T. E. Ballard

Skeleton
- Scott Mignola

Near Sandia Peak
- Anthony Russell White

Attempt
- Mitzi Miles-Kubota

The Sky Has Fallen and The Night Has Broke
- W. Joe Hoppe

The Red Arrow
- Catherine Conlan

A line of alternating ones & zeros
- John Burgess

Now That You?re Older
- Karen Stromberg

Aerialist
- Mark Yakich

Apothecary
- Rebecca Loudon

Work
- Jeffrey Morgan

Potential
- Lisa Gluskin

Hilda
- Laura Bieber

Talisman
- Jane Rice

Overall Light
- Francine Witte

In Darkness it Flashes
- David Filer

On Realizing The Sun Is Just a Star
- Francine Witte

The Pancake Principle
- Martha Clarkson

Haiku for the Japanese
- Shaun Gant

Deep Sea Angler
- Lisette Alonso

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I. Adapting to allow members of the opposite sex to find each other in the deep sea, a newly hatched male bores its jaws into the female's body
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Born in Sosnowice, Petrokowski province, Poland, 1896. Not a scrap of paper,
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She wanted angels In her life, with prayers Like the soft movement Of birds,
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