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Because I Love the
                   Woodchopper's Ball:
                   A Blues Sonnet
Scream it and Scram:
                   A Blues Sonnet
Wrinkles
Comfort
Seas and These
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Word in Words
Adam
A Lilliputian Script
3¹/₂ Parrots
Jihad
Sparkles
Occlusion
Mother's Cradle
Me against the Music
Arash
Sex Appeal
The Poet's Brother and the
                   Language of Asperger's
Trinity
Together
Einstein's Afterlife Postcard
                   m=E/c²
Our Skin
Poetry

Front Cover:
Central Park

Inside Front Cover:
Suicide

Inside Back Cover:
Peace

Back Cover:
Samsara

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Scream it and Scram:
             A Blues Sonnet

Brianna L. Noll

It's like the duty of her soul's to scat
these syncopated spurts of sound she scats
against the drummer's rat-a-tat-tat.

And in the smoke-dimmed room she sings oo wee
jibberin', jabberin', honey, oo wee
that girl can move, roll like a timpani.

Tuba, bass trumpet, the cat on the keys
improvise, but always in sync, switch keys
tempos, times, following her lead, scream threes

against her fours, staccato glottal stops
beneath a legato phrase that won't stop
until she dizzies and fizzles and drops.

In rolls the starlet's presto cadenza:
ripples, rills, trills, builds, halts to a dead end.

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