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Historic Northeast Cultural Arts Commission


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 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
Funding for this site provided by
Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund
City of Kansas City, Mo.