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    Laughter Mountain

    By Sy SafranskyMarch 1976
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    From the trees beside me / a hawk emerges, / falling horizontally / toward Bradley Falls.

    — from “1.”

    By Wayne HallFebruary 1976
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    It slips through us / a parade of delicate / dead women that carry / the sun in the August sky

    — from “End of Summer”

    By Douglas HallFebruary 1976
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    Aquarian Meditation

    Shades of the winter moon / distill the sky / into a foretaste of the arising: / the emergent forest tapestry / of dissonant souls / harmonizes.

    By Gayle GarrisonFebruary 1976
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    the palm-leaf

    alone. / the harsh beauty. / salt waves / strike the sandward grain. / the palm-leaf / totters at the edge

    By Joe BlankenshipFebruary 1976
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    One cant love without fear of exposing / tender parts to pain, nor can one leave / love to feeling incomplete, to make sense / from pain, never-ending, like glare.

    By Richard WilliamsFebruary 1976
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    Under ice / we breathe in shrunken sentences, / locked in / by the firn dome overhead / moving through our white sleep / like a clock’s hour hand.

    By Jim LarkFebruary 1976
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    The world becomes another / story. I see nothing so clearly / as myself, and that / smudged. The mirror I took / for a wife has run off / with my eyes.

    By Sy SafranskyFebruary 1976
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    Day Of Mourning

    By James CarpenterJanuary 1976
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