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  • Elaine Equi: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    April 4, 2021

                                  photo by Jerome Sala ______________________________________________________________________________________ The Repairman   I can’t get rid of him. One day I found him…

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  • On the Street Where You Live [by Robert Wrigley]

    April 3, 2021

                              “Love takes time to overcome.”–Confucius Certain love songs beloved by men are listened to with something like derision by women.  So I have been assured, by a woman, and I wonder about…

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  • The Final Season [by Greg Pattenaude]

    April 3, 2021

    RALPH FASANELLA (1914 – 1997) | Sandlot Game Thursday was the most glorious day on the calendar, one filled with childlike dreams and unmatched optimism. No, I’m not referring to April Fool’s Day, but…

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  • From My Diary – February 2020 No. 2 [by Lera Auerbach]

    April 2, 2021

    Home © Lera Auerbach, Oil on Canvas (1) The doctors warned me that I might get depressed after the surgery.Before the surgery, my tumor was producing five times more cortisol than normal.  After the…

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  • Writing Prompts for April’s Poem-a-Day Challenge (by Nin Andrews)

    April 2, 2021

    It’s April, the cruelest month, and here in Virginia the rain has been falling so steadily, I am worried it will never dry out again. I feel soaked to the bone. Brain-foggy, too. Socked…

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  • Vastness, Immensity (by Mitch Sisskind)

    April 2, 2021

    1. I want you to imagine a yacht the length Of three football fields filled with the topTwo hundred and fifty celebrities from The worlds of music, movies, sports,Silicon Valley and Wall Street sailing Around the world…

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