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tackle shop
sugar lobbyists compare
spinner lures

Bill Cooper, Naples, FL

2am roaches faster than the speed of light

Frank Hooven, Morrisville, PA

a bit of Mozart
among beeps and buzzes
of the MRI

Tim Dwyer, Brooklyn, NY

surviving my childhood
the moss
in me

Kelly Sargent, Williston, VT

fading light . . .
she takes off her bangles
to play the guitar

Ranice Tara, India

past midnight the story reaches dewpoint

Michele Root-Bernstein, East Lansing, MI

stillborn . . .
the day she became
a pillar of salt

Randy Brooks

s  many bullet h les it's alm st falling apart

Scott Metz, South Beach, OR

leaden skies
a calf drinking rain
from a tractor track

Paul Chambers, Newport, Wales

Maundy Thursday
even God knows what it means
to lose a child

Joshua Gage, Lakewood, OH

spring thaw
a broken hockey stick
in the beaver dam

Eric Sundquist, Batesville, VA

hornet's nest
combing through
groupthink

Katie Dozier, The Woodlands, TX

pretending to read
fireflies
in a mason jar

Evan Coram, Charleston, IL

red dragonfly . . .
the part of her story
I never quite believed

Angela Terry, Sequim, WA