1. Hero
You ever notice, when I’m around, Superman is not around.
2. Carnival
My parents went to get something to eat.
My grandmother watched us.
We wanted to go on the Ferris wheel.
We gave our helium balloons to our grandmother to hold.
She floated away.
When our parents returned, we told them what happened.
Did she say anything?
She said it was won-der-ful.
Tags: Contributors 91, Leonard Gontarek, Poetry, Poetry 91
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Sean Carney: Super Man
John Estes: Awrack and Awry
John Estes: Density
B.G. Firmani: How I Married Philip Glass
Nathan Leslie: It Can't Hurt, Can It?
Cameron Stewart: Mr. May or: Waiting for Love in a Chain Restaurant
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Terry Adams: Ant asks where?
Cory Andrews: Rejection Letter Re:
Lisa Andrews: Some Things My Parents Said
Tyler Antoine: Dick Poem
Holly Teresa Baker: To an ecologist
Jacob A. Bennett: The Pugilist
Mel Bentley: Tonight We Are Delighted
Nellie Bridge: Placing an Order
Charles Carr: I am being stalked
A.D. Carswell: The King and I
Yi-Fen Chou: Walking Home from the Redwood Inn and Making Excuses for Still Living in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Grant Clauser: At the Occult Flea Market and Used Book Emporium
Jim Cory: Excerpts from 777
Kevin Dobbs: Desert Zombies of Doha
Colin Dodds: The Labyrinth in the Third Millennium
Clyde K.L. Elsie: Ode to Jocelyn, Flight Attendant on United #4774 from LGA - CLE by Passenger 14C
Valerie Fox: Two Important Questions About Pornography
J. Oscar Franzen: Did You Hear About Some Woman With an Ear Growing in her Arm?
Leonard Gontarek: from Mr. Ippolito, I Didn’t Complete This Week’s Poetry Assignment, But I Did Write This
Leonard Gontarek: Philadelphia
Leonard Gontarek: Two Poems On Flying
Leonard Gontarek: Virgin Crying In My Dream
Ben Gunsberg: Forgiving Indianapolis
Lynn Marie Houston: The View Up Davey’s Shorts When I was Fourteen
Brett Elizabeth Jenkins: Recycle, Reduce, Reuse (And Close the Loop)
Meg Johnson: First Born
Meg Johnson: My Hermit Tendencies
Jennifer L. Knox: The Bubble That Is You at The End of Your Life
Aaron Krol: What I Am Is A Piss-Poor Novelist
Lori Lamothe: Armageddon Saloon
Lori Lamothe: Virtual Botticelli
Diana Keren Lee: Half a Sonnet
Lynn Levin: Song of the Maenads
O. V. Oveson: Ode to Dave Dahl
Don Riggs: The Flies of Mid-Autumn
Don Riggs: Jupiter Transits My Anus
Linwood Rumney: The Uncertainty Principle
Amy Saul-Zerby: SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER NOTHING IS WHAT YOU THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE BUT THAT IS OKAY
Amy Saul-Zerby: You Should Probably Quit Your Job
Peter Schireson: Love Poem
Lauren Schmidt: The Box Marked “F”
Ali Shapiro: Hook
Christina Shideler: Dat Ass Tho
Christina Shideler: Stick a Fork in Me
Charlotte Simmonds: Here at the Miniature Zoo
Navid Sinaki: In My Mother’s Full Veil
Laura Spagnoli: Celebrity Dream
Laura Spagnoli: Oh Look At the Time
Scott T. Starbuck: Haiku at 70
Nicole Steinberg: Squick
Nicole Steinberg: Talking to Girls About the Good Ol’ Number-Two Taboo
Linda Sultanoff: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
John J. Trause: Regret
Andrew James Weatherhead: Poem for my neighbor’s bird, which I took care of for 10 days while they were in Turkey
Patrick Whitfill: Curiosity (VI)
Veronica Zabczynski: Marriage
