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THE INNISFREE POETRY JOURNAL

Innisfree 3, September 2006

 

E. Louise Beach

Campfire at Lake Michigan

First Fruit

I Wish to Make a Poem

 

Anne Becker

Ballad of a Thin Man

What the Ear Hears the Lips Sing

 

Brad Bisio

Art History

 

Jane Blue

Relativity

The Nature of a City

Yuccas

The Cat   

 

John Bush

Elizabeth Walking

 

Wendy Taylor Carlisle

The Year in Sports

The Life of Meat

 

Grace Cavalieri

What I Meant to Teach

Guilt by Association

Truly a Problem of Reference

Fear and Wonder

 

Norma Chapman

Filling the Silence

Tinnitus

In the L&H Cafe

 

James Cihlar

Bergen Mercy

What My Ex Used

What I Used

Horoscopes

Beryl the Bear

 

Ellen Aronofsky Cole

To Wayne, Diagnosed with

   Schizophrenia in 1973

 

Ruth Z. Deming

The Men who Love Me

 

Martin Dickinson

Applepicking, Fitchburg, Wisconsin

Death of Osip Mandelstam

Washing Rocks at the Geology Museum

After the Fire
 

Moira Egan

Adulteress Aubade

I Am

High School Corridor, Early Morning

Venus® Divine™

Grimm Rondeau
 

Ronda Eller

White Crimson

Tooth-on-tooth

 

Martin Galvin

The Cold Facts about Real Estate

The Fun House on the Midway

Ms. Dickinson at the Laundromat

Timed Tests

 

Bernard Jankowski

After Tommy's Mom Left her Note

Louie, the Hungarian Chef, Hurled the Plate

The Air is Late November Thin

Coach Zoulias Stood in the Snow

 

Hiram Larew

Pink Roses

Life with a Candle

 

Lenny Lianne

And Tomorrow, a Wilderness of Riches

The Jamestown Weed

The Plant Hunter

 

Michael H. Lythgoe

Saint Sebastian

Joint Replacement Surgery

Stitches

A Painting of Shoes for Rehab

Like the Lion

 

Judith McCombs

When Towers Burn

At the Bronze-age Citadel

 

Susan Bucci Mockler

End of Winter

What I Wish I Didn't Know

My Father's Sister

 

Miles David Moore

Emoticon

A Taste to Die For

Poetry and Music

 

Kathi Morrison-Tayler

Back Walkover

Tomatoes

Bad Dog, Memory

Pile of Discarded Shoes

 

Bonnie Naradzay

Bathing in Benares

Evening Boat Ride:Rhine River

 

Barbara J. Orton

Hey

The Offering

Alphabet of the Sleepless Night

 

Steven Pelcman

Unknown Faces

 

Roger Pfingston
Floaters

Tom's Pasture

The Silence

Thanksgiving

 

Jacqueline Powers
How Families Diverge

   Like Eddies in a Stream

At the Bedside of the Eternal Matriarch

Eternity in a Red Leather Tote

Easter Morning

 

Julie Preis

Collection

Dream House

Poem for Fall

 

Eve Rifkah

Suzanne Falls in Love

André Utter Falls in Love

Maurice Paints bleak and Lonely

Self-Portrait at 66

Transformation

 

Kim Roberts

Botany

The Floating World

Delphi at East Haddam

Two Studies of a Bear

 

Teri Rosen

Passing Through

What I Didn't Do on my Summer Vacation

Week Three at the Arts Colony

 

Helen Ruggieri

A Mythtake

 

Karen Saunders

Father-in-Law

Georgetown at Night

Demeter in Late Autumn

Father's Return

Neighborhood Suicide

 

Karen Schubert

For the Boys

 

J.D. Smith

Elegy

Essay on Pleasure

For a Guinea Pig

Diary Excerpt

From a War Diary

 

Dean Smith

Hilary's Moon

Delivery Room, 2004

My Father's Gun, #3

Pulling the Trigger

357

Last Photographs, Tilghmann  Island

 

Rose Solari

That Day

Somewhere between Four and Five A.M.

Island, with Goats

Wine Tasting

 

Margo Solod

Why It Is always the Same

Found

False Spring

 

Colette Thomas

[since you asked]

[after]

[markers]

 

Steven Trebellas

Like my Mother's

Hound Blood

Apology

 

Rosemary Winslow

Blood/Wine

The Day

Mother, Then and Now

Beslan, et Alia

 

Kathi Wolfe

Fade-Out

In Heaven

Annie is Buried

 

Anne Harding Woodworth

Crows and Oaks

Ivy Poison Ivy on our Cyclone Fense

Lucky Blackbird of the Kirby Moor B&B

Speaking Crow
 

Ernie Wormwood

Elvis and Me

Nobel Novelist

Viene la Sera

Insomniac Theater

A Couple, After Truffaut

 

Katherine Young

Travel Overland

Driving the M8

Stars with Blazing Hair

Last Flight of the Gypsy King