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      • "Chat" by Ace Boggess
      • "Kite" by Bruce Morton
      • "River road" by Jan Haag
      • "Eagle Lake" and "Cessation" by Yvonne Morris
      • "Lament" by Mike James
      • "The Response" by John Sheirer
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Eagle Lake   by Yvonne Morris

She knows stars
             don’t cry although
             they spend eternity
in a dark place. She is only five years
              old when, drawn down
the sandy path beside the summer cottages
              circling the water’s edge, she watches
               the minnows dart beneath her
massive shadow.



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Cessation   by Yvonne Morris

​The knapsack I carried home
following four months in a commune
held seventeen cents
two cigarettes
a copy of the Baghavad Gita
one lost ring
two goals--
to go back to where I came from
to never be the same person.

I stopped smoking instead.


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Yvonne Morris’ work has appeared in various journals, including The Galway Review, The Santa Clara Review, The Write Launch, Cathexis Northwest Press, and elsewhere. She is the author of Mother was a Sweater Girl (The Heartland Review Press). By day, she tutors and teaches at a community college.
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Pictured is poet Yvonne Morris.
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