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Paul Aponte

INTERLACED By Paul Aponte The wind water flowing earth sand fingers hands arms legs bodies souls It feels better when we are touching

Dad from the collection of Paul Aponte

DAD By Paul Aponte Remembrance of Dad As clouds belong in the sky As a bird the wind

Close the Gate Behind You (Pinhole Camera) Las Vegas, NM by Stephanie Lakos

CAULDRON By Paul Aponte The summer has peaked Taken all it can dish Cooled with love and friendship but the heat is still out there The sentiments churn in a cauldron black boiling maggots and feces potatoes, carrots, celery, pigs butt and monkey brains whole tomatoes a whole toad eye of newt fur of bat root of hemlock slip of yew blended and served and we're all drinking it Summer yearns for fall Fall will tell us all if it will be a long winter

Prohibido el Paso by Stephanie Lakos

HUMMINGBIRD POET By Paul Aponte Sweet flower nectar that is art. Bringing life, energy, the gift of mind's flight, engulfing, ethereal, subtle perfumes … calling, caressing the inner being to suckle, embrace, to take in your spirit. Every feather color the reds, greens, turquoises, a poem. Every movement a musical composition. Every wing flap love's epiphany. Oh hummingbird! Protect your nest! Protect your flowers! Show everyone what you are made of! Fly by with speed and precision! Hover and display your colors — love, beauty, life's moments, your valor, your mind, the energized life as a poet!

Francisco X Alarcon 1955 - 2016

FRANCISCO X. ALARCON WORKSHOP By Paul Aponte Flower and song blooms birthing spirit teachers learning flourishing Poetic mint plant love's gift to relax and cure spreading and growing A magical feast motivating soul and mind Expansion of love creating spirit teachers an Earth cleansed with In lak'ech

Paul Aponte Paul Aponte is a Chicano poet from Sacramento, California. He is a member of Escritores del Nuevo Sol and a member of Círculo De Poetas. He can be seen performing at various venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and around Sacramento. He is the author of the book of poetry Expression Obsession and has been published in Poetry Now, Sacramento Poetry Center's quarterly, La Bloga, an L.A.-based online journal, and El Tecolote Press in San Francisco.

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