INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Bilall Maliqi
Duane Locke
Eddie Awusi
Silvia Scheibli
Amit Parmessur
Lyn Lifshin
Juan Hongi
Shutta Crum
Peycho Kanev
Fahredin Shehu
Lana Bella
Laszlo Slomovits
Abdulrahman M Abu- yaman
Elisavietta Ritchie
Michelle Bailat-Jones
Keith Moul
Aneek Chatterjee
Tom Evans
Robert Nisbet
Paul B. Roth
Alex Ferde
Alan Britt
Ali Znaidi
Running Cub
John Grey
Jennifer Burd
Fred Wolven
Helen Gyigya
Ann Arbor Review
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Francis Ferde
All rights revert back to each poet.
--editor / Southeastern Florida
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AAR history note: in print 1967 - 1980. Irregular publications 1980 - 2004. As ezine 2004 - present. Most of 51 years all together....
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QUASI-GARDEN
This garden, grandiloquent, grandiose, but gossamer--definitely
without white roses and light blue gravel curving paths, thus
antidisestablishmentarian.
This is chiaroscuro garden, but with more shadows that the brightness
of flowers. It has no dirt.
We plant the seeds, words, in something we call "mind,"
Almost everyone speaks the word "mind, 'but not one person
knows what the words means.
when the words spout, they too often spout schadenfreude.
Rarely, an aficionado of belle-lettres.
SEPARATE MENTAL WORLD
I had hope--a somewhat obscure hope,
when I heard
my balled-up fist
pouding on
the closed steel door I fantasized
of my insular room of my insular neighborhood.
I listened to the sound and felt the pain in my hand.
I actually heard the knocking, although
my arms were stitched to my sides by words I heard.
At times my fingers wiggled.
ORACULAR EDUCATION
Winter goldfinch flew through the thick, very thick walls
of grammar school room.
Flew to black board and tore masks off numbers.
Number exposed. The numbers had no lips.
.Duane Locke, Tampa, Florida