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ErosIon, by Nancy A. Henry
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Language as a Second Language, by Ted Bookey
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Be Careful What You Wish For, by Alice N. Persons
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Driftland, by Michael Macklin
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Whispers, Cries, & Tantrums, by Jay C. Davis
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Never say Never, by Alice N. Persons
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Sex, Death, and Baseball, by David Moreau
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Humming to Snails, by Ellen M. Taylor
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The Flame and the Fiction, by Darcy Shargo
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Europe on $5 a Day, by Nancy A. Henry
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Laundry and Stories, by Robin Merrill
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A Sense of Place: Collected Maine Poems, by Bay River Press
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Walking Track, by Jay Franzel
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Ways of Looking, by Edward J. Rielly
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Things As They Are, by Eva Miodownik Oppenheim
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A Moxie and a Moon Pie: The Best of Moon Pie Press, by Nancy A. Henry and Alice N. Persons, Editors
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Traveling Through History, by Patrick Hicks
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Unidentified Flying Odes, by Dennis Camire
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Innumerable Machines in My Mind: Found Poetry in the Papers of Thomas A. Edison, by Dr. Blaine McCormick
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Evidence of Light, by Marita O'Neill
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Rags of Prayer, by Kevin Sweeney
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The Stream, by Don Moyer
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Child is Working to Capacity, by Tom Delmore
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The Desire Line, by Michelle Lewis
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Tuscany Light, by M. Kelly Lombardi
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The Hard Way, by Jay C. Davis
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Angel of the Heavenly Tailgate, by Annie Farnsworth
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Full Moon Rising: the Best of Moon Pie Press, Volume II, by Alice N. Persons and Nancy A. Henry, Editors
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Poems of Maine in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties, by Brenda Shaw
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Sostenuto, by Karen Douglass
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Essays in All Directions, by Robert M. Chute
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You Can Still Go To Hell...and Other Truths About Being a Helping Professional, by David Moreau
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Singing With the Dead, by Ted Thomas, Jr.
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Socks, by Jay C. Davis
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Early Late Bloom, by Jim Mello
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Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems, by Edward J. Rielly
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He Gives Me Flowers, by Gaylord Day Weston
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The Church of St. Materiana, by Anne Britting Olesen
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Lostalgia, by Ted Bookey
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Life Class, by Ruth Bookey
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To the Promised Land Grocery, by Bruce Spang
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Drowning: A Poetic Memoir, by Claire Hersom
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How Many Cars Have We Been Married?, by Ted Bookey, editor
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Safe Harbor: Port Veritas Poetry Anthology, Volume I, by Edited by Alice Persons & Nathan Amadon
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Agreeable Friends, Contemporary Animal Poetry, by Alice Persons, Editor
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The Ur-Word, by Jim Glenn Thatcher
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Ordinary Time, by Kevin Sweeney
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I Have Walked Through Many Lives, by Young Voices - Scarborough
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A House of Bottles, by Robin Merrill
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Floating, by Ellen M. Taylor
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Vivaldi for Breakfast, by John-Michael Albert
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BLACK BOAT BLACK WATER BLACK SAND, by Dave Morrison
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The Lawns of Lobstermen, by Douglas "Woody" Woodsum
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With a W/Hole in One, by Ted Bookey
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What on Earth, by Marcia F. Brown
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Blues in the Night, by Herb R. Coursen
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Be Careful What You Wish For
by Alice N. Persons – copyright 2003
$ 8 including postage
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Reviews for Be Careful What You Wish For
by Annie Farnsworth, publisher and editor of Animus
While some poets take the well-mapped scenic route to get from observation to truth, Persons writes as the crow flies: a straight line between those two points. Persons views the world through a keen and unsentimental lens, and manages to capture with brief turn of phrase things we've all been witness to but unable to quite pin down. The result on paper is a gutsy, honest collection that reads like a breath of fresh air.
Sample from Be Careful What You Wish For
Postcard from Mexico
After a week of rain, your card arrived,
but not the sun. I read it still soaked;
some of the writing bled. Here, towels and jeans
never quite dry, and sooty water swells the gutters.
Caught in the cold rain, the city is helpless;
drowned worms thread the sidewalks.
All night, cars hiss; I dream of you,
brown on white sand.
Out walking, feet wet, I pause
in the scent rising from a laundromat.
Where you are, white walls hold the long day's heat
and careless flowers leaven the night air.
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