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Paul B Roth
Duane Locke
Alan Britt
Silvia Scheibli
Steve Barfield
Duane Locke
Alex Ferde
Kristina Krumova
Richard Gartee
Lyn Lifshin
Gale Acuff
Alicia Mathias
Sunday Eyitayo Michael
Running Cub
Laszlo Slomovits
Shutta Crum
Solomon Musa Haruna
Elisavietta Ritchie
Yuan Hongri
Helen Grigya
Fahredin Shehu
Karyn M. Bruce
Michael Lee Johnson
Keith Moul
Jennifer Burd
John Grey
Rekha Valliaypan
Fred Wolven
Ann Arbor Review
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Francis Ferde
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--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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Three
of us arrived
at the same spot,
at the same second —
the sparrow after a crumb,
the hawk after the sparrow,
and I after groceries —
all converged in
the Kroger parking lot.
My arrival
in a Ford Escape
alerted the sparrow
which escaped,
the hawk turned
its dive into night,
and quick as we met
we parted —
the sparrow safe,
the hawk still hungry,
the car still lurching,
my right foot still
hard on the brake.
BARGAIN
A
tourist stands next to a tree
by a small bakery in rural India.
A monkey scampers down,
grabs her purse and scoots back up.
From the topmost branch
laughing down at her —
all her cash, credit cards, ID,
passport, cell phone, in its paws.
Distraught, she steps into
the bakery to ask for help.
The clerk says, get a donut,
you can pay me later.
After a moment of bewilderment
she does and steps back outside.
The monkey scurries down
and trades for her purse.
Laszlo Slomovits, Ann Arbor, Michigan