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by Mary-Marcia Casoly
copyright 2008

One sunrise sea every morning warms
alone these breasts breathe sheer peasantry 70 degrees
ghost crabs scuttle grit ajar camouflage
young red-footed boobies wide-feet stagger
yawns

purple cloud sweet musk-quito air
knee and pants torn ragged stabbed healing
eye of duck and egret feather loose, free
lion tailed [...]

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Petting the Kitten

by Bea Garth
copyright 2008

ceramic sculpture
work in progress

The above is a new  ceramic sculpture I am currently working on. I paint a liquid colored clay (engobe) over my slab built piece which I then carve through (scraffito) to reveal the (white) clay body beneath.

—-Bea Garth, December 2008

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by Erik Kaye
copyright 2008
watercolor

by Erik Kaye, copyright 2008

Note: the above picture is one of Erik’s paintings of the Japanese landscape and people.  Erik  and his his wife Corinne have been teaching English there for the last few years.

Here’s what Erik  says about this painting:

“The real [...]

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MELTDOWN

by John Kurtyka
copyright 2008

At my wits end – I’ve gone around the bend
This banker I befriended — got me over extended
I went and spent all of my retirement
Trying to avoid paying rent — so now I live in a tent
So let’s take away everyone’s S U V
Park them somewhere nice with trees
Where [...]

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