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Ace Boggess

"If I added voice to musicians in their choir, / my instrument would whine complaints. / Annexed by the troupe, / I fingered quick approximations of each note."

Andre F. Peltier

"Late lunch on picnic tables / floating above Bar Harbor. / Garlic butter bliss. / My first taste of lobster. / A buck a piece in those days."

Andre F. Peltier

"The initial had been used / to go into debt / three or four times over. / The initial needed to die."

Patrick Beath

"Yellows of sunrise and sunset, mine and his. / Sulfured pulp and ligneous page. / The word is, he’d have had / no patience for this:"

Patrick Beath

"This may be accompanied by / a sense of exhalation, of / relief, of surrender. You may / find yourself succumbing / to an impossible closeness."