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Fall/Winter 2009-10

Poetry

tom oristaglio
scott summers
cindy childress
tom rechtin
james b. nicola
debra rymer
doug draime
corey mesler
rebecca schumejda
chris crittenden
arlene ang
joey nicoletti
brad johnson
lorie allred
elizabeth kay
alexander russo
nissa lee
kenneth gurney
jessi lee gaylord
keith brighouse

Flash

ajay vishwanathan
ethel rohan
william "cully" bryant

Featured Artists
julie steiner

Steiner Interview
by Alex Nodopaka

Editors

Jennifer VanBuren
Jai Britton
Alex Nodopaka
Patrick Carrington

Mannequin Envy in memory of poet and artist Douglas Gamrath

Peter Schwartz

4 Imps by Peter Schwartz

while hunting the perfect verb on the first rainy day
of what would prove to be a long and cold december

we too can go charming
brave and uncaring as a childhood pox,

we can reinvent the unemployed,
our best version of momentum
a symptom - of the silence all around us.

we can enter a world of pet tricks
where the cattle prod remains useless
on the telephone table

we can release it from its ache
to squawk across the wires for
one more night of weird destiny
to flutter

we can rise into the fluted yawp
and pledge to sleep only when and where
it's needed, like firefighters

Peter Schwartz

Peter Schwartz is a poet, author, painter and playwright. He's recently published poems with 'Sein und Werden', 'Lily', and 'Freefall'. He has fiction with 'Pindeldyboz' and 'Dispatch' and paintings with 'HiNgE' and 'SubtleTea'. See a sample of his controversial journal at: www.watchtheeye.com. He now has over 100 poems published or pending. He now believes in magic.

Mannequin Envy no longer accepting submissions of poetry, art or flash fiction.

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