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Spring 2008

Poetry

VanBuren's picks:

Antonia Clark
Brad Johnson
Dale McLain
Roger Pfingston
Richard Rippon

John Anderson
Cristina Baptista
Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
Michael Brownstein
Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Alison Eastley
Brent Fisk
David Fraser
Krikor der Hohannesian
Amy MacLennan
Lisa Markowitz
Damon McLaughlin
Micki Myers
Roger Pfingston
Heather Schimel
Rachel Stewart
Lafayette Wattles

Flash Fiction

On Debunking Modern Art

Alex Nodopaka

Pushcart Nominees

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Jai Britton
Patrick Carrington

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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.