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 SPRING
2022
Weather
forecasters
and
other
reporters,
including
astronomers,
not to
mention
calendar
publishers,
and the
fact
that the
Webmaster
is
working
in the
northern
hemisphere
in
April,
suggest
that
this
season
is
spring.
Really!
Last
night
thirteen
inches
of snow
fell in
Binghamton,
with a
range of
depths
elsewhere
not far
north of
where
I'm
writing.
There
are
good signs in
New York
City:
daffodils;
forsythia;
tulips;
roses;
buds
threatening
to leave
on
trees,
etc.
Robins
have
made
their
appearance,
though
so far
only in
a local
social
club's
back
yard.
That one
may have
been the
first
wise guy
robin
I've
observed,
perhaps
not an
ordinary
robin, so
I will
continue
looking
in those local
parks
not
overrun
by dogs.
Further
squeezing
a mood
for
spring, temperatures
today
ranged
in the
40's,
which is
more
like
March
(and
well
before
the
21st).
Nonetheless,
Easter
for many
of us
came last
Sunday.
If
this is
spring,
it's of
a
variety
not
often
experienced
in New
York.
Further,
if
there's
a report
of
expansion
of the
Arctic's
sea ice
in the
next
week or
two, I
may
relocate
to
Florida.
That
notwithstanding,
we have
poems by
Bruce
Bennett,
Susan
Bryant,
Sally
Cook,
Michael
Curtis,
Robert
Darling,
Stephen Duplij,
Claudia
Gary,
Webmaster
Arthur
Mortensen,
the late
Tim
Murphy, Carolyn
Raphael, Jennifer Reeser, Joseph
S. Salemi,
Charles
Southerland,
and
Frederick
Turner.
Baseball
parody
poet
Gary
LaPointe
announced
his
official
retirement
on April
1st.
Dr. Salemi,
in
addition
to his
poems,
offers
an essay
on an
American
trait
that
might be
fairly
described
as
"golly-gee!"
optimism.
Poetry:
Select
to see
new
and past
postings.
Essays:
Joseph
S.
Salemi
writes
on how
Americans
often
substitute
hype and
hallucination
for what
could be
real.
Reviews:
From
previous
issues
Archives:
Divided
into two
sections,
New and
Old.
Online
Prosody:
As of now
this
will
remain
in the
Old
archives
until
editing
and
rewrite
are
complete.
Contributions
are
by
assignment,
as we do
not have
the
resources
to
manage
online
submissions.
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