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From the mail bag, the stratosphere, and hidden keyboards everywhere, poems that slither into your grasp.

Dirt Heart  
Raphael Dagold

Match Point  
Robert Gibbons
This is about directing psychic traffic. After spending a serious minute with this poem, Mr. Gibbons invites us for a cocktail or two of new poems at www.conspire.org/ Be back for dinner!

Three Collaborations with Bertrand Dorny  
Peter Davidson
Peter Davison´s crisp poem gives Bertrand Dorny´s collage eyes.

Mercury, Slickered  
Michael Morse
Everyday, you should introduce something poetic to your life. The way you look at your children or someone you love. The moment of quiet you spend sitting at your desk. The thirty seconds it takes to read this poem...for example.

Theoretically Speaking  
Rick Mulkey

Tree  
Billy Collins

A Revelation  
Carol V. Hamilton
The bruised gardenia, drunk on its own sweetness...  DON´T STOP NOW.

Dark Hay  
Chris Agee

Coffee & Tits  
Deborah Reich

The Oracle  
François Trémolières
Peter Skelton, Translator
Translated from the French by Peter Skelton for Luc Ferreira

The Son of Abraham or Mad Love  
François Trémolières
Peter Skelton, Translator
Translated from the French by Peter Skelton

To The Horizon  
Fred Johnson
for Mike and Petra

Rain  
Jennifer Dick

Ruins  
Jennifer Dick
for J.B.

A History Lesson  
Jill Alexander Essbaum

Disengaged  
Jill Alexander Essbaum

Jacques Cousteau est mort (July 25, 1997)  
Louis Armand

From Sky  
Michael Dennison

Should be Abolished (El kellene)  
Sandor Kanyadi
Paul Sohar, Translator
Translated from the Hungarian P. Sohar

"Obedient to a gypsy itch..."  
Sergey Gandlevsky
Phil Metres, Translator
Translated from the Russian by Philip Metres

Poem for My Uncle Emilio, the Last Horseshoe Blacksmith in Las Villas, Cuba  
Virgil Suárez

Postcard Looking at a Postcard of Le Chateau de Picasso, Vauvenargues, France  
Wyn Cooper

Postcard of Saxton´s River, Vermont, 1910  
Wyn Cooper
for Jack Peters

Sigh (Sohaj)  
Sandor Kanyadi
Paul Sohar, Translator
Translated from the Hungarian by P. Sohar

Sigh (Sohaly)  
Sandor Kanyadi
Paul Sohar, Translator
Translated from the Hungarian by P. Sohar

The Wife of Bashira  
Perveen Shakir
Baidar Bakht, Translator
Leslie Lavigne, Translator
Elegant, powerful, particularly significant now... read The Wife of Bashira.

Tomato Ketchup  
Perveen Shakir
Baidar Bakht, Translator
Leslie Lavigne, Translator
When Ronald Reagan changed the legal definition of ketchup to be considered a vegetable in school lunch programs, he wasn´t thinking of the power of this poem...

As Ever  
Michael Anania
Michael Anania´s poetic voice resonates here in As Ever. Listen up....

Loving a Man in His Nakedness  
Janet Grillo
Janet Grillo´s emotional power just may transport you back to some similar moment of feeling.

The Tradition of Italian Women  
Janet Grillo
for my sister

My Beloved  
Andries Walter Oliphant

Self-Portrait  
Andries Walter Oliphant

There´s A Whole Realm...  
James Douglas Morrison

Mime and Terrorist  
Frank Cluck

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