
About the Artist
Barbara Abel lives in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
Since 1995, her work has been juried into more than thirty
local and national exhibitions. Her images are found in galleries
and private collections nationally, and are published in fine
art publications such as Communication Arts Magazine
and The Photo Review. Among her awards are First
Prize in the 1997 multi media Michigan Fine Arts Competition,
First Place in the Scarab Club's Gold Medal Competition, and
the The William S. Holmes Award.
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About
the Author
Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives in East Texas. Her
first collection, Reading
Berryman to the Dog, was published by Jacaranda
Press in 2000.
Dedication
The author dedicates this chapbook in memory
of Leslie Claire Karnatz Allen.
Acknowledgments
Versions of many of these poems appeared first
in: 2River View, 3Candles, Conspire, Friction, James River
Review, The Muse Apprentice Guild, Pierian Spring, Poetry
Midwest, Poet’s Grimm, Salt River Review, and Unlikely
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Contents
After
Dorothy, After
Rumpelstiltskin
Kissing the Frog
Mythmaking
Mass
How Could Norman Jean
Her Husband
I Swan
The Fairest
At This Age
Film: A Short Love Story
Home Fires
In His Lecture on
Resonance The Poet
Instructs Us
History
She Half Remembers
After Anesthesia
Adamant
Taking Down the House
Number 15 in the
2River Chapbook Series
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