By Gene Novogrodsky
Arms in flour and Corn Flakes,
Corn Flakes as noodles,
Baking, ever baking, adding sugar
And raisins, the same sugar and raisins
Her husband sipped with luke-warm tea
From a saucer ….
But before the kitchen, the milk cow
In a cool and damp underground home next to the water pump.
Milk into a bucket, then a heavy lift, and back
Into [...]

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By Gene Novogrodsky

And I’d feel better, a lot better,
If the young men and women
And older men and women
Who will walk across stages
In the United States and Canada
Were going to carry grains of
Interest and questions with them
As they enter the world of work
And debt and credit and homes
And kids ….
Why go grim?
Why so pessimistic?
Won’t anyone carry [...]

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By Rudy H. García

Mid July, mid sunny day,
By the emerald sea shore was where you were
I shall not publicly describe the exuberance
Of the goddess-like beauty
Your body oozed that day
A Serena corpus transforming
In me, such tantalizing, arousing, erotic thoughts,
I will forever, selfishly keep solely to myself.
You were the lady by the sea,
A freshly scenting, blooming, [...]

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