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Voice

by James B. Nicola I heard my mother’s voice today. Thanksgiving  weekend. Ten years this January. My nephew played a very loving voice  mail message from her he has kept on his  cell phone ten years. My brother said he has  kept three such messages. My nephew said  he had another one and wept awhile.  It made…

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An Old Man and a Basketball

by Chris Boucher Following the hollow sound of a bounding ball Into an empty early morning gym, an old man starts to shoot solo. The long dormant floor creaks and moans And the rim rattles in the echoey cold— Echoes like his old skills. He lives with that Like he…

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Patches

by Chris Boucher My pet beagle is expanding my world. One day she sniffs out rabbit pellets behind the house. Another day it’s a freshly-dug hole under the shed – my neighbor says a hedgehog did it. On yet another, she returns proudly with a deer antler in her mouth….

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