Fall 2001, issue 8, what we were promised
Welcome to Gumball Poetry's Eighth issue of poetry in gumball machines and on the web. February 4, 2012
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1st place: Lisette Alonso
2nd place: Catherine Conlan
3rd place: Francine Witte

This is issue number Eight, Fall 2001.

I spoon her ashes courage in the silver spoon, fill the Altoid?s tin empty of candy, smelling of
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A jagged scar starts on the side of her neck where a right-handed person would naturally begin
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I'll create an ark out of origami
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Deep Sea Angler
- Lisette Alonso

Skeleton
- Scott Mignola

Work
- Jeffrey Morgan

Now That You?re Older
- Karen Stromberg

A line of alternating ones & zeros
- John Burgess

I Shall Make An Ark
- T. E. Ballard

Talisman
- Jane Rice

Apothecary
- Rebecca Loudon

The Pancake Principle
- Martha Clarkson

Aerialist
- Mark Yakich

Attempt
- Mitzi Miles-Kubota

Potential
- Lisa Gluskin

In Darkness it Flashes
- David Filer

Haiku for the Japanese
- Shaun Gant

Hilda
- Laura Bieber

Near Sandia Peak
- Anthony Russell White

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

The Red Arrow
- Catherine Conlan

Overall Light
- Francine Witte

On Realizing The Sun Is Just a Star
- Francine Witte

Leg
- Philip Dacey
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A line of alternating ones & zeros, Signals, power grids,
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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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She wanted angels In her life, with prayers Like the soft movement Of birds,
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