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| | | | | | Ambush Charm by Dr. Lawrence Nannery This street scene, its peacefulness suddenly pressing on your eyes | | | | The Big Five - O by Dr. Lawrence Nannery Well, you have achieved it, the return.
Thirty years ago, exactly, they ran you out of here.
The Prague Spring was over, and you had to run for your life.
You were twenty then, and fond of saying that
Life is not worth living unless there is something | | | | Dark-Winged Martyr by Leah Sellers Oh, Dark-Winged Martyr
Your fiery plumage stings my Soul
Makes me flinch
And Cry aloud
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| | | On the hinds sight gets weary by Mirella Ionta On the hinds sight gets weary
of that which stands stale on fronts | | | | Perfection Forever by Dr. Lawrence Nannery That gaze.
As he had rounded the corner, she caught his eye.
She was seated at an outdoor cafe, and her eyes sliced into him, | | | | "Mama" by Dr. Lawrence Nannery The collective eyebrow raises when the chanteuse goes Neapolitan.
The crowd, so casual, so chic, twitters, then subsides. | | | | Desire - A Reply to Dante by Dr. Lawrence Nannery You well know by now - That her regency depends upon - Her receding faster - Than your desire can follow. | | | | There's An Evil Wind A-Blowin' by Leah Sellers There's An Evil Wind a-blowin'
The War Winds are a-Roarin'
Hear the fiery-eyed War Hounds hungrily
Howl, growl and seductively bay? | | | | A Famous Man of Letters by Dr. Lawrence Nannery Righteousness his redoubt, - This curmudgeon played the dialectics - Of all things, all thoughts, all feelings through all ages - To the delight of his cognoscenti | | | | When the demon took its leave by Mirella Ionta When the demon took its leave - a smirk befell the face - and a voice squealed like rusted wheels; | | | | next | | |
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