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Issue 50: June 2020

Poppies on bank of river
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In This Issue
Martin Parker: MacArthur Park Bake-Off
Melissa Balmain: Public Relations
Martin Elster: Moving The Cows
C. B. Anderson: Psyched
Damian Balassone: Fonzie In A Cardigan
Michael Swan: Pet
INTERVAL ONE: Ten Assorted Fours
Henry Stimpson: Becoming Venezuela
Stephen Gold: Anagrammatically Speaking . . .
Kevin Blankinship: To Arabic, An Abortive Dear Jane
Max Gutmann: Manners
Oscar Kenshur: French Manners
Stewart Bartlam: Dumbphone
Ed Shacklee: First Lines
INTERVAL TWO: Covid Corner
Tom Vaughan: Magpies
Bruce McGuffin: The Tardigrade
Mel Goldberg: Goldfish Surgery
Susan Jarvis Bryant: How The Cow Ate The Cabbage
Richard Fleming: The Vegan Lion
Stephen Kingsnorth: Aliens
Robert Black: It Fell Through The Gap
INTERVAL THREE: Ten Over Four
J. I. Kleinberg: Recipe For A Curse, Served Warm
Nathalie Abi-Ezzi: Waking The Dead
David Alpaugh: Two Further Double Titles
Janice Canerdy: Happy Fiftieth!
Jen Mierisch: The Ballad Of Bob And Jilly
Alan Balter: Eating Habits
Naomi Marklew: ToddlerChef
INTERVAL FOUR: Ten Short Forms
Karen Greenbaum-Maya: Robert Shushed Me
Robert Bilinski: Four Haiku For Mary Poppins
D. A. Prince: On Writing Verse
J. J. Shale: Larkin Versus Blake
Veronica Aaronson: Reminiscing With Philip Larkin
Joan McNerney: Dear Editor . . .
Competition 49: Beastly Exchanges
Competition 50: Horse Lines