MAUREEN TOLMAN FLANNERY
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The Way It Is


The management
is not responsible for your loss.
Tread softly in the garden of dreams
and keep off the green.
Uncertain restrictions apply.
Desire at your own risk.
Do not want under penalty of law.
Covet only under cover of darkness.
What you reach toward
grabs hold of you and pulls.

 


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Poetry

Adam Benforado
Mark P. Bowen
Patrick Carrington
Hildred Crill
Phil Crippen
Ruth Danon
Jehanne Dubrow
Melissa Jones Fiori
Ira Joe Fisher
Maureen Flannery
Jennifer S. Flescher
Rich Furman
Patricia Giragosian
Rebecca Givens
Charles Jensen
Daniel Khalastchi
Robert Nazarene
Simon Perchik
Emily Pérez
Frederick Pollack
Dan Rosenberg
Christopher Salerno
Jeneva Stone
Jay Surdukowski
Todd Swift
Barry Wallenstein
Fredrick Zydek

Reviews

LIZZIE HUTTON:
James Richardson's
Interglacial: New
and Selected Poems
& Aphorisms


DAVID KOEHN:
Frank Bidart's
Star Dust: Poems


KATHLEEN ROONEY:
Matthew Thorburn's
Subject to Change


Artwork

Kenney Mencher
Jo Adang

Contributors

 

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