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Poetry

Fisher King

By William Jay Smith

August 20, 2015

The tall Fijian spears a giant turtle
And hurls him down upon the foaming breakers;

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They Left Their Dog and a Record Playing

By Brendan Constantine

Summer 2015

They left their dog and a record playing,
the boy and girl next door. Last night

they argued to music, like they do;

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Meet Me at the Lighthouse

By Dana Gioia

Summer 2015

Meet me at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach,
That shabby, squat nightclub on its foggy pier.
Let’s aim for the summer of ’71,
When all of our friends were young and immortal.

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Jungle Jangle

By Douglas Kearney

Summer 2015

sic on it, the cameras: witch-green greasepaint canopy—
pan down: the thick bamboo lattice
twine-bound—pan down: dirt with rags to gag up,

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The pool whirrs suddenly, and the bluebottom stirs, like the blue in the sky when clouds sail across its seas.The tangerine sapling may be dying, hasn’t grown in two months. Frondson palms are limp and brown. Paradise is thirsty this November. [...]

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The Neighborhood

By Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Summer 2015

Here and there occasionalas navels and avocados droppedby the path, scarlet cardinals,puppies, squirrels, and dodo birds pop on front yards—pressed resin, pressedtin, all kinds of acrylic from China.Someone loves them no lessthan the animals tha [...]

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