The Next to New Shop

The Deleware Water Gap

2006-01-31T11:39:00.000-08:00

The Deleware Water Gap, by Mary Stebbins.

Never previously published.

Send your previously published works or anything you'd like published.

January, Zero Degrees

2005-07-25T23:39:00.000-07:00

JANUARY, ZERO DEGREES

The mouth of the moon
says
no leaving is easy.

Things are always left undone
and rarely neat enough
to pack in boxes.

We push our litter
through a hole
in the sky.

We push ourselves
through a hole
in time.

We leave everyone
with words
stuck in our throats.

No leaving of love
is ever
easy.

The zero of moon
matches holes
in blood and bone

and has nothing
to do
with weather.

Peggy Sperber Flanders
as published South Florida Poetry Review
and in chapbook An Array of Textures 4956 St. John Drive
Syracuse, NY 13215
315-488-8077
Published in The Comstock Review
vol. 15, #1, Spring 2001
pegflanders@twcny.rr.com

Worthy poems deserve a second chance to be read.

All About ME

2005-04-23T14:28:00.000-07:00

Right now, this blog is all about ME. I am hoping to post the previously published work of other artists. Let me know if you are interested. Mary

The Next to New Shop

2005-04-23T09:59:00.000-07:00

When I was a child, we often would visit rummage sales, garage sales and the Goodwill looking for bargains. Times were hard and it was wonderful to discover something special and inexpensive. Our favorite shopping place was The Next to New Shop. The store sold items that were gently used. They were tastefully arranged in a store that was decorated as nicely as a "real" boutique--with dried flower arrangements and art on the walls--it was a real boutique. Everything seemed interesting, exciting, pretty or useful. I hope to recreate in this blog-Zine a "store" as a full as that one with pieces worthy of revisiting. I hope you will "buy" them with your eyes. The "fee" is your time and attention, directed this way again. Do visit many times. And submit, if you wish. Mary

Owl Gate Niagara

2005-04-23T09:33:00.000-07:00

Owl gate, Niagara, Mary Stebbins, edificeWrecked
www.edificewrecked.com

Guidelines

2005-04-20T08:16:00.000-07:00

Please send the post with the title of the piece and it's venue of previous publication. If possible, include a link to the originally published piece to to the venue. Do not submit anything that is in a current issue or still "live" (not archived). Post titles should be in this format: piece title, author, previous venue.

While the pieces included in this blog do not necessarily represent the personal, political or aesthetic views of the editors, we will delete anything truly offensive (excessively violent or pornographic).

Flocking Swallowtails Coloring Page

2005-04-20T07:59:00.000-07:00

Flocking Swallowtails, Mary Stebbins, edificeWrecked Coloring Contest winner
www.edificewrecked.com

Second Chance Club

2005-04-20T07:57:00.000-07:00

Many wonderful pieces are published once and then disappear from public view. I want to give them a second chance to be seen. This blog republishs out of print/no longer "live" poems, prose and photos. More details to follow soon. Please contact me in the comments space if you would like to participate. Mary

New

2005-04-19T14:24:00.000-07:00

I have just been born
anew, emerging from the chrysalis
of my former life.

I stretch my wings to dry,
angelic laundry.
You float

down to me. Your wings
are halos, two shining suns, bright
invitations.

I join you in a wedding
dance as morning rises. We share
honeysuckle nectar. Our wingtips

touch, touch. Open, close. Slow
passion. Our joining
lazy and good.

No one whispers
“ephemeral”
more quietly than we.

~
Mary Stebbins
For Bruce
Published in City Edition, May 29, 1989
“available”