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Our nominations for Pushcart 2022: Stephen Spencer, Ian Enters, Debasis Tripathy, Catherine Chandler, Ann Anderson Evans, and David Blumenfeld.
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We Are Live!
Better Than Starbucks November 2022 Vol VII No IV

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“long black digits spread
cerulean fingernails
scratch icy windows”

haiku by Sterling Warner
Better Than Starbucks August 2022
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Art: Composition by Terry Frost
#haiku #SterlingWarner #poetry

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“My mother’s great, but she doesn’t get out of bed
much. That’s how I answer those who ask;
I leave her death, a few years back, unsaid.”

from “Out of Sight” by Barbara Lydecker Crane
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Art: Mother and Child by Christian Krohg
#poetry #BarbaraLydeckerCrane

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“This little house of flesh that encapsules us
is no more than a leaf that falls,
a wave that crests.”

from “Brahman. Meditation.” by Janice D. Soderling
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Photo: Falling Leaf in Guelph, Ontario, Canada by Ryan Hodnett
#poetry #JaniceDSoderling

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“As a young boy, I thought he was crazy. Four decades in, living in a house I don’t own, walking the strange lands of America, I find myself still lost . . .”

from “A Man Who Feeds the Birds” by Francis Johann Verdote
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Man feeding pigeons by Laura Hadden

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“Then that blue blotch on my firstborn’s back,
that millennial native marker — the Mongolian patch.”

from “The Mongolian Patch” by Jen Ross
Better Than Starbucks August 2022
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Art: Traquée by Romain Rossi
#poetry #JenRoss

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“syntax of birdsong,
making of the man’s wise words
monotone nonsense”

haiku by Max Gutmann
Better Than Starbucks August 2022
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Photo: Larus argentatus in Tallinn Passenger Port in early morning by Maasaak
#haiku #MaxGutmann #poetry

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“Hamstringing web sites whose owners
Insult the audience by pasting in
Jaculiferous Javascript that
Kills your browser for forty-five seconds.”

from “Abecedarian Prayer” by Kenneth Nichols
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Art: Computer art by Kobako
#poetry #KennethNichols

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“Now, were a genie to fulfill my wish
that folks could see the globe that we inhabit
like hawks that spy the mice, they’d see the spasm
of extinction”

from “Hawk Feather” by Martin Elster
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Art: A Golden Eagle by Archibald Thorburn
#poetry #MartinElster

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“Haunting nights
Along the boulevard
With the silent armies
Of a stoned melancholy
By my side”

from “No Mercy” by John Drudge
Better Than Starbucks August 2022
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Art: Boulevard in the evening by Isaac Levitan
#poetry #JohnDrudge

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“we quit inhabiting a vase in the wilting hand
of grief — a body bearing an ache

too young to possess a name . . .”

from “fireflies” by Damilola Omotoyinbo
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Art: Vase (self-portrait) by Leon Bakst
#poetry #DamilolaOmotoyinbo

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“The further inland my feet and hands drag this dirt-ship, the more books & electronics build my ego. . . “

from “Oblivion’s Balloon as it Collapses Neuro-Linguistic Pathways . ..” by Bobby Parrott
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Art: Dynamic Universe I by Romul Nutiu
#BobbyParrott

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“The pond is seized by
icy rigor, dead to wind,
and bereft of swans.”

haiku by Teague McKamey
Better Than Starbucks August 2022
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Photo: Frozen pond by Alison Rawson
#haiku #TeagueMcKamey #poetry

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“There he stands, freezing his balls off.
Or in this case, his carrot, trans-
planted from his head by the brat next door.”

from “Saint Frosty” by Edmund Conti
Better Than Starbucks August 2022
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Photo: Helmut Smits - Odapark Venray
#poetry #EdmundConti

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Please join us in congratulating Kathryn Jacobs and Rachel Jacobs on the publication of their new book, A Life Lived Differently, a poignant portrait of autism.

From the publisher: https://t.co/PWlHRjMacY
Available at https://t.co/4BWTtDWnH4 and from IngramSpark.
#poetry #autism

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Our annual sonnet contest is now open for submissions:

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“And my mother grumbled as we
Trudged home from Downtown Brooklyn
To Bay Ridge, groceries in hand,”

from “The Fifth Ave ‘El’ Closed Today” by Robert Ackerman
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Art: A girl doing the grocery bill by Gerolamo Induno
#poetry #RobertAckerman

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“What is the time now?
Is it high time to be a butcher?
They think
And start the operation.”

from “The divided world and the river” by Partha Sarkar
Better Than Starbucks August 2022
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The Source of the Loue River by Gustave Courbet
#poetry #ParthaSarkar