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Junkie
by Elizabeth Schott

Looking-glass
by Heather Williams Elder

I Am No Mary. You Are No Lamb.
by Jill Crammond Wickham

Three Poems: DisOrder, Some Questions for the Virgin, and Behold
by Maureen Geraghty Rahe

Mis Ojalas*
by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza

Nap
by Kris Underwood

First Spoon
by Odarka Stockert

Fishbowl
by Stephanie Duve

Water Sprite
by Cynthia Bostwick

A Feline Fine, Kitty Kitty Mine
by Cati Porter


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POETRY

*BEST of mamazine.com* The big school
by Judy Halebsky

Daddy uses big words
Because no one understands
He failed kindergarten with glasses and earaches
And Fanny shouting into the phone
Who fails kindergarten?

He learned English like a math test
With a thousand variables
Calculations, equations, limitless permutations

Maya wants to go to college
So she's learning words out of a book for the test
Pedantic – using really big words for no reason
Tortuous – extra super complicated
Cloyed – to eat so much chocolate you just can't eat any
more

She says she's heard them all before from Daddy
But she never knew what he meant
About her insipid pop music, her Friday night mendacity, her teenage ennui

Judy Halebsky is from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her interests include visual poetry, Japanese calligraphy and holistic health. In May 2005, she created an interactive poetry instillation at the Oakland Museum of California as part of the Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival. Her writing has appeared in a number of journals including: eleven eleven {1111},:Grain Magazine and the New Delta Review. She currently lives in Sacramento and is a graduate student in performance studies at UC Davis.