Lantern©Ray
Rasmussen
(December
2001 Edition)
JOANN
KLONTZ:
snug
in his lawn chair
a set of single sheets flutters on the line November
birthdays
stubbled
fields –
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FERRIS
GILLI:
heat
. . .
between sighs, the squeak of corn growing business
lunch
prayers
for a friend
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RICHARD
STEVENSON:
Japanese
garden –
my son places a stone to divide the stream no
rolling waves –
long
shadows –
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CAROLYN
HALL:
in
the wake
of the Ellis Island ferry hungry gulls restless
night
daguerreotypes
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MICHAEL
TODD:
nothing
to declare
father's ashes in the carry-on bag his
ashes
unseen
birds crying
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DARJA
KOCJANCIC:
withered
grasses
at the hilltop the sky begins the
spider swings
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KIRSTY
KARKOW:
cold
snap—
the smell of mothballs on my flannels misty
morning
calm
morning
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JOHN
WISDOM:
moonlit
pier –
the sparkle of fish scales on calloused hands nearly
dusk –
glassy
pond –
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RADE
DACIC:
Autumn
rain
I set off in search of brightness Thawing
me
Fields
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KATHY
LIPPARD COBB:
a
flash of sun
between storm clouds— church bells first
sunrise—
grandma's
kitchen—
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LEROY
GORMAN:
in
parasol shade
we salt green apples have we been married so long the
burned-out barn
papers
to fill out
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AYAZ
DARL NIELSEN:
tree
farm
unsold aspen shed their leaves the
sound of
the
hermit
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LARRY
KIMMEL:
windy
night
at a distance the warmth of a neighbor's porch light through
a haze
where
the small lake
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MARIA
STEYN:
Thanksgiving
–
the weaver pulls her nest apart (by
Maria &
memories
. . .
light
drizzle
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JEANNE
JORGENSON:
the
odour of sweat
mixed with grain dust coffee break inmates
paid
up
to his ears
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ELAINE
(LANA) HOLMES:
autumn
frost
windfall apples glisten city
children
pale
beneath a winter sky
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CINDY
TEBO:
cotton
fields
the only white left is the snow end
of the chain
useless
map
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WINONA
BAKER:
a
fine September –
even yellow jackets drunk on late blackberries first
dream— alive
abandoned
farm
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ELIZABETH
ST JACQUES:
still
soft and white
mom's old letter on birch bark cold
December
this
year’s first bill:
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