Chatoyant

	Featured poetry from Chatoyant: The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets, 2004, edited by Ryan Masters. Embellishments by Virginia Chase Sutton, Some Grand Dust, two poem cycles by William Minor, and And Today I Am Happy, poems by Penny Cagan.
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Virginia Chase Sutton

Dusk. He sits beside a window filled with shrunken roses. He is trying to decide which was the last to die, for summer's gone, autumn come to a place without seasons. He can feel it in his bones and nose. October's punishment. November's first kind frost. They hardly seem to matter here, nor the fact he wears trousers that resemble Baghdad pajamas, an ancient cardigan sweater and no shoes---all without seasonal import, as far as Moker knows, who knows but one thing, obsessed as always with the eternal in the elemental.

William Minor

It's already nine o'clock and the train stops in the tunnel  somewhere between 34th and 42nd streets, and the motor is shut off like a respirator exhaling silence. Red signal ahead says the conductor  in a voice lucent as the Caribbean Sea, and adds just a momentary delay, and then you will be on your way. A collective sigh is heard through the car.

Penny Cagan

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