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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3rd place: Francine Witte


This is issue number Eight, Fall 2001.

Despite the cold wind the hoya keeps blooming busy, safe, indoors
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Driving at night, I reached across for the knee your skirt failed to cover
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Above all this, above the flat roads hooded by willows, above the souped-up shadows
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ghost in the machine.
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Skeleton
- Scott Mignola

Overall Light
- Francine Witte

Apothecary
- Rebecca Loudon

In Darkness it Flashes
- David Filer

Now That You?re Older
- Karen Stromberg

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

The Pancake Principle
- Martha Clarkson

Work
- Jeffrey Morgan

Near Sandia Peak
- Anthony Russell White

Deep Sea Angler
- Lisette Alonso

I Shall Make An Ark
- T. E. Ballard

Potential
- Lisa Gluskin

On Realizing The Sun Is Just a Star
- Francine Witte

The Red Arrow
- Catherine Conlan

Aerialist
- Mark Yakich

Hilda
- Laura Bieber

Talisman
- Jane Rice

Leg
- Philip Dacey

A line of alternating ones & zeros
- John Burgess

Haiku for the Japanese
- Shaun Gant

Attempt
- Mitzi Miles-Kubota

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A couple of truckers' yawns from Albuquerque a sign promises: "Falling Rocks May Exist."
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I climb out of the refrigerator before dawn and wipe the condensation from my spine.
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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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