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A Reading from Let’s Call It Paradise

On April 25th, I gave a reading at the River Road Reading Series in Eugene, Oregon via Zoom. Here is a recording of that reading. Let’s Call It Paradise will be released in the coming weeks by San Francisco Bay … 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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Corona, Then and Now – Judy McCombs

The pandemic Corona virus originated in China, spread globally. In early 2020, when it reached our unprepared country, Corona spread unchecked into all our fifty states. La Corona in the 90’s was A trademarked long cigar. Of course it planted … Continue reading

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Morning Tea – Janice Hoffman

The deer wander on the edge of the forest just beyond our property again this morning           as branches wave a love song of early spring. Cardinals and their feathered cousins sing   and call across the treetops while … Continue reading

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Screen Dump 499 – Tom Corrado

You are masked and gloved . . . and socially distant . . . orbiting the silent film Orphans of the Storm . . . gingerly navigating the crapshoot of grocery-shopping . . . An essential to the soundless you eat the … Continue reading

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One Meander – Pam Winters

One Meander   Rocky wants to know whether hummingbirds long for tabla music. At a restaurant in Santa Rosa, I met a busboy who played a sort of blues on his sitar, a sort of masala of birdsong or fingersong. … Continue reading

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Like Ghost Towns – Beth Simpson Huddleston

On my morning walks, the playgrounds are like ghost towns on an old TV set. Absent are the voices  that rise in crescendos. Gone are the sweet giggles and the sibling challenges. To uplift my spirits, I imagine them in … Continue reading

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