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An Excerpt from Let’s Call It Paradise

Click here for another excerpt from Let’s Call It Paradise, forthcoming from San Francisco Bay Press.

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An Excerpt from Let’s Call It Paradise

Here is an excerpt from Let’s Call It Paradise. Click on the link to see the PDF.

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Let’s Call It Paradise: A Poetry Concoction

My newest poetry collection, a mixture of composed, collage and visual poems called Let’s Call It Paradise, has been accepted for publication by San Francisco Bay Press. The book focuses on the current stage of our existence on a planet … Continue reading

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Then and Now – Anne Metcalf

  Before, when things were bad She would drink some wine And text some random man Wake up with a clear mind And go on, everyone be damned   Still, the lawns are verdant, the sunsets apricot Still, the unknown … Continue reading

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Nursing in Corona – Lydia Lawrence

  How long til I feel the ground Safely beneath my feet? How long must I tread water, Stuck out here in the deep?   Can I escape the current And surf the swells to shore? Or will the waves … Continue reading

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VIRUS MORNING – Vern Fein

  When the sunlight becomes my alarm clock, which I have not used for years after it replaced our dead dog and cat who had turned me into the punctual person I am seen to be, after a very short … Continue reading

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Then and Now – Mary Leonard

To preserve formatting, this poem has been saved as a PDF. Please click on the link below to access it. Then and Now Bio: Mare Leonard lives and works in the Hudson Valley where she is an Associate of the … Continue reading

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Don’t Bubble Me Up – Benita H. Kape

  Don’t Bubble me up. I’m fed up with being in a Bubble. UP!!   I need to walk out free. Forget Seventy or Eighty (+) (and please stay at home at all times.) More like Forty Three! That’s What … Continue reading

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Cornhole – Sally Toner

To preserve formatting, this poem has been saved as a PDF. Please click on the link below to access it. Cornhole Bio: Sally Toner is a High School English teacher who has lived in the Washington, D.C. area for over 20 … Continue reading

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GOTHIC PANDEMIC – David Churchhill

GOTHIC PANDEMIC Coronavirus 2020     The images were shocking: birds with hooked or spearing beaks in surgical gowns; catfish whiskers, goggles and shrimp-forks— Hard to believe one t.v. screen could contain such sights.   The newspapers were worse, full … Continue reading

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