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Poetry

Tracks

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By Colleen Boucher Mar 2010

It wasn't your boots that left the trail

or your snowshoes now framed

against the wall your family photo

telling tales of how you arrived

your tracks didn't show as you

crossed that cold lake...

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Leaves

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By Colleen Boucher Mar 2010

Leaves have stories to tell

like that brown one basking

in the sun like being at the beach

and burning but loving the heat.

Or the crimson and curled straggler

bleeding through its last frost...

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Faith

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By Colleen Boucher Mar 2010

The night was dark and it was the first of its kind

that ever seemed long. Morning couldn't come

sooner and the lark that should greet the day,

but no one was home and all the guests were

gone...

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Fires cleanse the future

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By Nic Custer Feb 2010

Oil Chem is refining

beauty. Caustic clouds

are prayers to heaven

as livelihoods go down

in smoke on their way

to hell. Flick a match,

burn the cheap cigar,

ask yourself

why do they have a...

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Fear Tactics

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By Nic Custer Feb 2010

"I'm falling for you," said the tower to her lover.

"...Are you scared?" he asked from behind a knowing smile.

"I feel like Cupid shot me through the heart ... and I'm terrified," she responded...

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Postcard from a high country

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By Grayce Scholt Feb 2010

I am remembering on this page          
a fine Tyrolean spring,   
another age, a hill we
struggled up to where
a crumbling castle stood
amid descending slopes
alive with...

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Monetary loss

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By Rita Heidtman Feb 2010

Corporate slaves

Draw gridlines

Into numerical mazes

 

Cubicle comfort

Clacking calculator keys

to fill wallets with pennies

 

Watching the clocks that stop

each time a glance is...

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Famous

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By Rita Heidtman Feb 2010

Popcorn seeds and cotton candy

I met her in the middle of a movie

 

While she dreamt of big fame concert halls

and laughed with her head back

about all the people she knew

 

But there was a...

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