.ETCETERA
A poem by Ron Miraflores
Visionaries and poets once
Looked into the horizon
As if the earth was still
Actually flat, as if
The horizontal plane
Before them was
The edge of the world,
Where films and stories ended,
And cued the beginning of
The credit roll.
It's all a mirage
Like the "end of human civilization"
Because the sun will rise
Even after the last person dies.
The sun does not
Set in the West,
But only rises in the East.
The sun does not
Submerge under the horizon
For there are no
Such things as periods--
Only commas.
Fall 2007 Poetry
.ETCETERA by Ron Miraflores
Featured Poet: Judson Hamilton
Editor’s Choice: Michael Ogletree
TRUTH IN ADVERTISING by Patricia
Fillingham
PAMONA HILLS by Daniel Wilcox
YOU AND LANGSTON HUGHES by Rosemary
Pennington
QUIET ASYLUM by Candy Tothill
THE TRAVELER AWAKES. HER TRAIN AWAKES
by Nick Courtright
DYING ALONE by Helen Peterson
THE LIE by Daniel S. Irwin
NEWSPAPER PHOTOS OF THE BROKEN WORLD by
Donna Munro
OCCUPIED TILL I DIE by J. Alan Nelson
BECAUSE LOVE IS LIKE THE SHORTEST DAY by
Dave Migman
YOUR EYES ARE by Jennifer Bowles
OF BEAUTIFUL SOULS by David McLean
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