Walloon Writers Review - edition 6

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H E RD O F WAVE S ( JU LY 22, 2020) James P. Lenfestey Storm clouds clock round east toward danger, night already pummeled by twisted bolts and screws and blunder, garbage soaring like gulls in contradictory wind. As soaked dawn lifts it’s clumsy scrim on wildness—herds of white gap-toothed waves gallop from the east, terrifying, mean, devouring uninterrupted sea, a hundred miles of open rage. Seated on civilization’s high and haughty rock, we watch, crumbling and helpless as waves stampede, trample remnants of our old lives, once clean and pure, artifacts and stories for the dawdling young. Roads, walls, ambition, history, our family names, old lighthouse cut off at the hips, confidence shot, struggling to swim, Chicago and Milwaukee surged, dunes gored. And yet… 1000-foot, 8000 long-tonne loads of taconite from the gutted shore of Lake Superior sail through, no one asleep on that deck, unless laid up in fear round St. Mary’s curve until the swirling mad disturbance passes, if it does.

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Biographies of our edition 6 Contributors

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Strait Storm Jonathan Jordan

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Waves, James P. Lenfestey

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18th Annual Crooked Tree Arts Center Juried Young Writers Exposition

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Herd of Waves James P. Lenfestey

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The Moss Crusted Tree Trunk James J. Bogan, Jr

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The Gaggle Bev Steckert

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The Northern Lights James J. Bogan, Jr

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Heading Down the Barnes Road Hill in Antrim County Shelley B. Smithson

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The Laundromat Jim Bolone

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This Nameless Field Raymond Luczak

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Forgotten Fields Remembered Thomas Ford Conlan

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Tributaries Allen M. Weber

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Strawberry Moon Chris Lucka

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Another Spring Michael S. Walker

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Spring on Lake Michigan Lisa Fosmo

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On the Feast of St. Joseph CJ Giroux

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Snow Dance Allen M. Weber

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To A Birch Nancy Cook

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Cover Letter Phillip D. Sterling

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The melodius silence of woods Buff Whitman-Bradley

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IN CAMP Edd Tury

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Pigeon Dreams Thomas Ford Conlan

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Solstice Litany Jim Harrison

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Turning (Outside Fishtown) CJ Giroux

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Meditation near Cross Village Deda Kavanagh

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Water is the Most Powerful Element Nancy Cook

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In the gloaming Buff Whitman-Bradley

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Autumn On The Bay John Lennon

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