first date

speaking at the same time

for the third time

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Ramachandran Sundararajan

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old hands

the moon sinks

beneath my cuticles

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Adele Evershed

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fresh lime juice 

how can my day 

be so dull ?

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Minal Sarosh

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parents meeting
a wildflower
in the teacher's vase

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Srinivasa Rao Sambangi
 

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the clock

pointing out the time

I waste

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Carl Walsh

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moonlight

we encounter

who we are

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Terrie Jacks

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preening  

myself for no reason  

late autumn 

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Owen Bullock

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 Knocked over sign, 

did I need to read you?

      Storm season…

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Jerome Berglund

 

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road ahead

before we are here

we are there

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Terrie Jacks

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Paper plane -

the carelessness

my soul needs

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Elisabeth guichard
 

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back to routine

my diary sheds

grains of sand

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Agnes Eva Savich

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early morning fog

all the wrong

passwords

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John Pappas

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the calliope

slowly falls out of tune

divorce papers

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Evan Coram

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air mail 

the momentum

of my parents’ romance

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Barrie Levine

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     wind farm harnessing 

surrounding elements 

       unpaid internship

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Jerome Berglund

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tracing raindrops

through the screen

what if I’d said yes?

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Evan Coram

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her rebuke

nettle gone

to seed

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Bryan Rickert

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trial room mirrors

my loneliness multiplies

ad infinitum

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Priya Narayanan

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my mask

soaks up the tears...

Gran's funeral

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David He Zhuanglang

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flickering light
i'm too lazy  
to change

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P.H Fischer

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rainy day

the scent

of new books

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Theresa Cancro

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pushing seventy

early spring followed

by early summer

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John Han

 

 

      in parent’s car

old songs are new songs

      perennials reseeding 

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Jerome Berglund

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cougar in the parkade

one of us

         out of place

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Nola Obee

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acab fingers 

on a bamboo flute 

 

folk songs of a quieting life

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Tim Roberts

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passing by
my brother's coffin—somebody
asks the way

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Irena Szewczyk

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homebuilding

mouthful

by mouthful

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Ryland Shengzhi Li

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years of gardening

i still grow

impatiens

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Nancy Orr

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