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Wednesday, August 28, 2024: Howard Sage's "Matzo Boat Voyage"

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Bio: Howard Sage hitchhiked from Dublin to Galway Ireland and from Philadelphia to Ames, Iowa. He edited and published an award winning magazine Pulp .                                 Matzo Boat Voyage                     All the flimsy boats have left. None awaits me. I look toward the sea; a piece of matzo peers above the waves, asks me to leap aboard. We paddle forth. c 2024 Howard Sage

Wednesday, August 7, 2024: Victor D. Infante's "Traveling by Map"

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  Bio: Victor D. Infante was born in Pittsburgh, raised in SoCal, educated in England, now lives in Worcester.is the features editor for The Worcester Telegram & Gazett e, and the editor for Worcester Magazine . His first full-length poetry collection, City of Insomnia, was published by Write Bloody Publishing, and his poetic novella, Suffer For This , is set to come out later this year on Moon Tide Press. He's an Aquarius. Go figure. Traveling by Map After Fozzie Bear We arrange to meet in places that don’t exist: Coffee in Burma, chicken cacciatore in Leningrad, tiramisu in that little place in New Amsterdam, the one where we kissed behind drawn curtains, became silhouettes in some black and white movie, the ones they play at night to make insomniacs feel more lonely. Sometimes we miss each other. You pinned a note to the buttocks of a statue in a park in Constantinople; apologies written in Esperanto spray-painted on a wall in Dana, Massachusetts, long, perfect lines of Bra