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	swirling dust on the mesa's top a fish fossil David Oates
that place inside me punctuated by crows Renée Owen
	behind the megastore the river trickles through a shopping cart Peter Yovu
late night swim slipping into the stars Barbara Feeher
	winter rain dad's rock collection under my downspout Shirley Marc
parent's gravestone— morning light bends my knee Robert Epstein
	not in a hurry to be anywhere cottonwood seed Ben Gaa
milkweed silk parsed into syllables of light Francine Barnwarth
	church garden a wicker chair sags into dusk Antoinette Cheung
butterfly exhibit the docent says be a flower Lee Hudspeth
	negative space . . . my shadow instead of you Angela Terry
first snow the placebo works for me John Stevenson