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Hey Bernie, you have me thinking again, it feels good. Not being active in forums these past few years has cause me to become lazy and not push my writing. Anyway, time to experiment and see where this goes. Great to read my old poem Altoona, it’s been sometime since I wrote it.

Thanks Bob, just so you know I’m Dale Patterson from the Waters.

Final Revision- My left leg is longer than the right, orthopedic shoes keep me level. I meet an old friend at Fourth Street Cafe, step with a burled maple cane. Bill’s Viet Nam ball cap, brightly embroidered,101st Airborne, tilts on his head. We sit near the coat rack. Soiled dishes rattle the well ...

Hello Bernie, so great to read you again, and being from Chicago I could resist this poem. As always, you have used creative details to move your story forward and keep the reader engaged. Neighborhoods are strange animals, everyone knows about everyone and yet know one really knows anyone. And so w...

Hi Bob, I was unfamiliar with this story so your poem had me captured. The stanza concerning the ‘ass of a surgeon’ was especially striking. As always Bernie give you some excellent thoughts, good luck as you finalize, it’s a beauty.

Hi Frank, I’m glad to see your wonderful poem nominated, well deserved. I love ‘near naked save for an umbrella’ and S2 is just perfect. I have never been to India, but through your poem can feel the atmosphere. A great story of love in the New Delhi smog.