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Cover
Table of Contents
Editor's Notes
Donations
Submission
Guidelines
Website
Stories
& Essays
A Day In the
Life
_ By
Sida Li
Eight
Minutes
_ By
Michael Gettings
Jesusland
_ By
Max Gordon
One September Morning
_ By
Brian G. Ross
Patrimony
_ By
Len Joy
Reading Between the Lines
_ By
Michael Gettings
Scarring Truth
_ By
M.W. Hamel
Snapshots of the Ordinary
_ By
Monica Lee
Spirals
_ By
Robert Connal
Stars
_ By
Daliso Chaponda
The Jury
_ By
Jeremy Tavares
The Thief
_ By
Marva Dasef
The Train to Pennsylvania
_ By
C.L. Atkins
Poetry
735 Miles to Nootka Island
_ By
Nicholas D. Klacsanzky
Al Fresco Cafe Poems #125
_ By
Duane Locke
Al Fresco Cafe Poems #127
_ By
Duane Locke
Barnstormer
_ By
Lynn Strongin
Gilded Candy
_ By
Mina Blue
Marriage 2
_ By
Christine Redman-Waldeyer
Memo to Italy
_ By
Andrew Francis
Rain, Your Words, and the Agony...
_ By
Betina Evancha
Sarcasm
_ By
Juliette Capra
Textbook
_ By
Christine Redman-Waldeyer
The Unspoken Eloquence of the Sword
_ By
Anne Nialcom
Three Shades of Grey
_ By
Monica Lee
We Pay
_ By
Betina Evancha
White Dread
_ By
David Snyder
Writing
_ By
Betina Evancha
Art
& Photography
Keira Anderson
_ Photography
Anne-Julie
Aubry
_ Paintings
Whitney
Clegg
_ Photography
and Drawings
Eman Reharno Jeman
_ Photography,
Graffiti, and Drawings
Mike Pomery
_ Paintings
Jennifer Robbins-Mullin
_ Photography
Madia Krisnadi Widodo
_ Photography
Penny Wilson
_ Mixed
Media and Digital Art
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Al
Fresco Cafe Poems #127
By
Duane Locke
Nearness spotlights
Distance.
I’m non-objective,
Abstract, a guitar
With a costume.
Stoically, I hide
Epicurus,
His garden, his girl.
A pair like us
Closed Eden's gate.
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DUANE LOCKE has a Doctor of Philosophy degree, specializing in poetry from Donne to Marvell. During his academic career at a less-than-mediocre university where he wasted much of his life, he taught varied courses in poetry from Homer to Michael Palmer. After being forcefully evicted from his fifty year home in the Tampa crime district and slums by what he calls "The Tampa Gestapo" (city inspectors), Duane now lives by a lake populated with wild birds in Lakeland, Florida. His Tampa environment was pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, and the homeless, but now is Snowy Egrets, Wood Ibis and Wood Ducks. Duane has had over 5,000 poems published. He has also had over 276 photos published, mainly pictorials of Tampa trash and Lakeland's mystic flowers. He has also had a number of one man art shows and exhibitions of his paintings throughout Florida, and the entire Spring 2004 issue of the magazine
Bitter Oleander is devoted to a 92-page interview and sixty of his poems. The book
Extraordinary Interpretations by Gary Monroe has a discussion of his paintings. He is listed in
Who's Who in America 2006 (Marquis).
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