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Morning
 
In a pearl of quiet
the morning rises, translucent
as a fish.
 
Katherine Huang

 

All Hallows' Chores
 
Take it easy, make it last, suffice, there's no do-over,
for the Saints are stingy and used to playing hard to get.
 
Alessio Zanelli

 

Thirteenth Birthday
 
Shrimp fried rice at the Market,
time enough to think of books
I had not courage
to buy.
 
James Miller

 

Wheeze
 
Market extinction splashed
Into the fresh human stew
With feral mischief
 
Michel Steven Krug

 

Westerly, Rhode Island
 
Along Route One, a Burma-Shave sort
of July sign-sequence: Pick Your Own.
 
Russell Rowland

 

Chippewa River
 
I was careful
about where to place my toes.
 
Deborah Doolittle