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(7/19, 1998)

First Place   summer moon -   dangling on her sleeve   a silver button                     HaroldSecond Place   the patient's wife-   replacing his pajama buttons   with Velcro                JoannThird Place   she pays   for invisible cake -   with a button                  Hugh WaterhouseBELOW THIRD PLACE   hotel bedside   he sews   the white button                    -willard      beneath the dryer      that missing button      moving day                  Gary Warner         orange specks         on the sunflower's button         fluttering monarch                             tishang               young wife -                saving buttons from                  his old shirts                                  hilary tann                      love worn teddy bear                      it's lone button eye                      still shines                                    soji   grandmother's buttons --   her face   comes back to me                      roberta beary      after last night      sitting near the phone      twisting shirt buttons                              Hazel         childhood Teddy bear --         a tuft of frayed yarn         where his button eye was                                   Donald McLeod             mushroom buttons             from the forest floor -             a sizzling t-bone                                bill lerz                love begotten night                your arms everywhere                my shirt won't button                                      emile molhuysen   once again   dressing for dinner --   so many buttons                   jen     clearing the drawer:     under Dad's photograph     his Navy buttons                       Paul Blake        jumble of buttons        in grandma's sewing box -        not a one plastic                           Ferris            pearl buttons            a rainbow in freshwater            wearing them       copyright 7/13/1998 by Wendy C. Bialek                northwind blowing                buttoning scarecrow's coat                so carefully                               Tom Williams                   farmyard estate sale:                   bidding on a cocoa tin                   chock full of buttons                                           Charles Trumbull   one button eye   and flattened fur-   my son's old bear                     Sue     in a hurry     he fumbles with     his button fly jeans                            Betty          mockingbirds fighting          a cat crouches in bachelor's buttons          Which one will win?                                 R. Marie Stutts, Edd                                                      

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