~  memorial day 2008 ~

the dueling uglies issue

This issue we decided to pick two poets and highlight their work. 
We hope you enjoy a slightly broader representation of these ugly cousins of ours. 

the James Autio pages

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Saved
You could have been a school marm, / or married to a lighthouse keeper, but / you’re like me.

Chute Man
A man hung from a tiny parachute / drops into the darkness of an umbrella stand,

Letter from LaPointe
Wish you could be here with me. It’s beautiful. Pea green sea fills the channel that separates Bayfield from LaPointe.

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Autumn in a Graveyard
Droplets soak in slow, the tombstones / darken from gray to black

Road Poems
The sun hemorrhages into a crisp horizon

After the Wake
I sat on the curb / and drew misshapen issue three

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