Street roots
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Feb. 17, 2012
Energy Bubble
By Aaron Rondazzo
Sugar stagnates in surplus; a superb thrust
Musty clusters rearranged, vibrating alive today
Smooth grace guided in elegant steps; robust
Muscles bolstered, neck to toes, paving the way
Mutant dreamer, gleaming true; brilliance unused
Silly smiles slanted to slumber, breathe deeper heavy sleeper
I’ll paint your memory, emboldened to immortality, Now...
Articulating your afterlife rejuvenates these rusty hands
For possessing these precious gifts, I bow...
Stars stir to supply variety, begging for a story
This sun dreams Earthly perfection manifested in mind
Neutrinos, cells, organs, conspiring to create an eternal ME
Divinely climbing to sublime times of daily chime
Love forges all designs, pine, pain, plains, noise, toys, you...
Walk then, in grace, inwardly bowing to all creation
Gratitude circulates joy, wisdom, rhythm, purpose too
Experience an impossible endeavor to artsy elation
A heaven dream among confused chaotic characters
Staging a world in masked moralistic mortality
Consciousness may never die, end of lecture
So eternity must be abundant with possibility
A Doll
By Debra Knauf
A cloth doll is
Sitting on the sofa beside me.
She has tan flannel skin
That is soft to the touch.
She is wearing a green, felt dress
Over a yellow felt shirt and red felt booties
She has brown, yarn hair tied in
A pink flannel bow.
She has black bead eyes,
Brown felt eyebrows,
Pink felt
Cheeks and lavender felt lips
Turned up in a smile.
Sébastien Marchai
PUZZLES
Answers on page 6
B y Cole M erkel
Sudoku
Crossword
Across
1. A long way off
5. Field yield
9. Bread batter
14. Bristle
15. Old Italian money
16. Stimulant
17. Tartan sporters
18. Archipelago part
19. Breaks
20. Not well-planned
23. Accused’s need
24. Spanish liqueur
25. Shipwreck signal
28. Sudafed, for one
31.___Wednesday
34. Without, en francais
35. “What’s gotten___you?”
36. Hawaiian banjo
38. Plant-like
41. Con
42. Made of corncob, perhaps
43. “Tarzan” extra
44. Creating metal
49. Cunning
50. Religious figure
51. Chess man
54. Observer
57. Japanese-American
60. Big brass
61. Computer output vs. input
acronym
62. Linen fabric
63. Hate group
64. ___League
65. Chucks
66. Ethereal
67. Sported
Down
1. Fungal spore sacs
2. Dude, ca. 1940s
3. To any extent
4. Rotten
5. Medical rotation
6. Acorn OS
7. Latter half of the Big Easy
8. One way of marking territory
9. Pressure
10 . Kind of column
11 . Pkg. deliverer
12 . Acquire
13 . “48___”
21 . Way too weighty
22 . Compete (for)
25 . Pere Noel
26 . Like draft beer
27. Lifted, so to speak
29. Four quarters
30. Reason for overtime
31. Glows
32. Brain bucket
33. On the larger side
37. Grassland
38. To wit
39. A realization of great truth
40. Magical wish granter
42. Leaflet
45. Monet subject
46. Frigid
47. Native American people who
Inhabited Vancouver Island
48. Flashy trinket
52. Arab capital
53. “Pomp and Circumstance”
composer
54. Cut down
55. Skier’s transport
56. Brain area
57. Math degree
58. Debtor’s note
59. Knight’s title
correct numbers, from 1 to 9. Every row, column and square must
include all digits, 1 through 9, in any order.
This m an
works.
So does
Street Roots.