Historic Northeast Cultural Arts Commission

Downgo Sun

Spring 2008

Artwork: "Drum Group" by Armin Muhsam

Editor’s Note: Revel, if you will, in this eclectic assortment of poems, creative nonfiction narratives, and short stories as the hot sunshine of midday lifts the sweet smell of damp earth into the endless blue sky on these first days of spring.

Between Line Breaks Gustavo Adolfo Aybar

On Fire Maril Crabtree

Haiku Kathleen Cruden

January 2005 Susan Ferguson

Indiana Poem Michael Lee Johnson

If I Were Young Again Michael Lee Johnson

I Work My Mind Like Planet Earth Michael Lee Johnson

Bipolar Michael Lee Johnson

Leroy, His Love Affair Michael Lee Johnson

Crazy Old Jack Michael Lee Johnson

Battered Behind Dark Glasses Michael Lee Johnson

The Bug Project Katie Manning

Dali’s Vision Katie Manning

The Gospel of Our Lorde Katie Manning

Instincts Linda Rodriguez

The Amazon River Dolphin Linda Rodriguez

Nor Gloom of Night Tom Sheehan

Bats in the Belfry Vincent Spallo

And the Sun Went On Shining J.A. Tyler

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