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_ Issue 2 _ 2006 - 2007 _ Table of Contents _ Contest Winners and Finalists _ Poetry _ Barbara Schweitzer _ Nancy Tupper Ling _ Daniel Donaghy _ Bonnie Naradzay _ Gerald Huml _ Boe Barnett _ Elizabeth Rodriguez _ Antonio Sacre _ Miriam Sagan _ Lynn Veach Sadler _ Fiction _ Craig Sanders _ A.M. Heny _ Mary McLaughlin Sletcha _ Christina Kapp _ Creative Nonfiction _ Constance Studer _ Tom Meek _ Author Bios |
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| Poetry Bonnie Naradzay House on the Patuxent River Leaning back in wheezing chairs, we prop our feet, eat apple cake with raisins soaked in rum, and read aloud in turns from Bishop’s poems. Shapes of otherworldly firs emerge, anchored in the ghostly fog. We enter dreamy divagations in a bus and pause to slide the glass doors open for the cat, fur slick from spats of rain, mewling back inside to claim a seat. The driver’s a local who stops for moose. The sky is darker than the water now. Torrential rain arrives and surges through slender willow trees to meet the sea. Winds raise the spirit-level, and water overflows the pilings. The bulwarks are submerged, cattails sway in choppy waves, and crab traps clang against the pier. |
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