Fall 2001, issue 8, what we were promised
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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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Every morning she places pills in tiny saucers. Cabbage Rose porcelain, a child?s English
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I'll create an ark out of origami
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In Darkness it Flashes
- David Filer

Deep Sea Angler
- Lisette Alonso

A line of alternating ones & zeros
- John Burgess

Aerialist
- Mark Yakich

I Shall Make An Ark
- T. E. Ballard

Leg
- Philip Dacey

Hilda
- Laura Bieber

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

Now That You?re Older
- Karen Stromberg

Work
- Jeffrey Morgan

Near Sandia Peak
- Anthony Russell White

Attempt
- Mitzi Miles-Kubota

On Realizing The Sun Is Just a Star
- Francine Witte

Apothecary
- Rebecca Loudon

Haiku for the Japanese
- Shaun Gant

Potential
- Lisa Gluskin

Skeleton
- Scott Mignola

Talisman
- Jane Rice

Overall Light
- Francine Witte

The Red Arrow
- Catherine Conlan

The Pancake Principle
- Martha Clarkson

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Despite the cold wind the hoya keeps blooming busy, safe, indoors
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One night my father drank so much bourbon that he turned into a skeleton.
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He's still as tall as ever, the love of your life, not quite bearable up
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