FEB 2010 Tanka and Brick

TANKA

WE

by WC Roberts

a desolate place

on this plain, below the sky        

grown heavy with ash--

we breathe in the very last

of the bottled air... and sigh

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BRICK

Progress              

silicon          synapses     spawned

in                 biotech       labs

revolution    brought       about

synapses      in                revolution

spawned      labs             silicon

brought        about          biotech

biotech        spawned      in

labs             revolution    brought

about           silicon         synapses

Shelly Bryant

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