W e  M a g a z i n e  I s s u e  1 7  *  V o l u m e  1 7



        he is the highest apple

        on my tree

        ripening to a bushelful:

        drop, pretty one, drop

                *******

        until he sang

        i didn't know my heart

        had so many

        doors


                        Nancy Dunlop

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        Stratagems


        of light slicing
        a hall into webs

        of leaf between two
        trees:

        have come in oblique
        leaps to a place,

        stacked trick on trick
        to reach it-

        this solar tremor-
        tap heat &

        movable heart of
        red wood.


                        Michael Weaver

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        from STANCE


                another driven plot, however
                sheltered

                falls away, leaves
                barren

                concrete-
                to be stood on, askew

                between holes where
                buildings

                halls, now space where
                opening

                form from one's only

                distance


                                Stephen Cope

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When the owl comes down and sits on the top of the birth pole
The unremarked messenger sidles from behind Corona Borealis
Breathless with complaining. A human life is more important
Than anything. And it says it again. To language is to listen.


                Robert Kelly

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