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A few fine words
​(at least, only a few words!)

THEORY
I am going to try a showcase of poems to replace the "Duel". There will be one of mine here since I can find them easily and can rapidly copy them from one place to another. There will also be one featuring some other contemporary poet whose work I like, appropriately credited.
PROCESS 
I will change the poems frequently but not necessarily on a fixed schedule and encourage everyone to comment and to promote the readings on Twitter and other social media. I will also leave the rating widget so please show your applause (or disapproval).
PARTICIPATION
As with the Duel if you would like one of your poems featured, please reach out to me. I love to promote others' good works!
FINALLY
At the bottom will be a piece of flash fiction, sometimes mine, sometimes not.

As I Like It #23

Cloud Variations
 
Brilliant yellow sunlight
Pours down from a pale blue sky
Directly overhead.
Stark white puffs
Dot an azure eastern vista.
Towering black storm
Rises to the west
While rows of alternating
Off-white and mid-blue
March on either flank
With an occasional fluff
Rising above the ranks.

by Greg Schroeder, published in Conditions
Thank you Mother

Thank you, Mother.
For showing us the world was
Our backyard.
For showing us what we can
Do
For showing us that no one but ourselves
Are in charge of our own
Destiny.
Thank you, young bride
For bringing me into the world
Thank you Mom
For loving me.
by N. E. Langston
See more of her great poetry here

Flash Fiction

Untitled
by Tara Isabel Zambrano

​​We drive around in your Chevy pickup, buy food with quarters. You squeeze hot sauce around my finger. We contemplate what we'd draw on the pavement if we had chalk. When you pass the cigarette, the touch is brief. Like a vaccination. Love circulating with antibodies of fear.

Take a look at my published works​​ and projects


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Classic Literature
(The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen)
or, my Published Works
See! Cats can read!
But can they write? Anyway some of what I'm working on.
Projects.
Me (a bit younger than I am now)! contact me with comments, suggestions, helpful hints...