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ALIEN LANDING PAD (excerpt)

Twelve tall they stand, round and
robust, in the big river’s curve, just
West of the Keeper. Supercharged

light poles landmark the central
vortex, a power place of many names,
glowing amethyst tonight—all but one.

...(continued on RCP site, link below)...

—Julie Ann Baker Brin, from River City Poetry Fall 2020, Vol. 9, four (4) poems published:

• 'Alien Landing Pad'

• 'Dallas to Wichita in the Passenger Seat'

• 'I, Cactus'

• 'Outside at Mort's'

• (plus one October Broadside piece)
  
  Thanks to: April Pameticky, Managing Editor, RCP. View entire issue (and above poems) here: https://aprilpameticky.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/rcp-v-9-fall-2020.pdf 

LOUSY BAND AT PORT OF WICHITA (sneak peek)

I will help it. Keep my head
from bobbing, feet from tapping,
arms from raising up. Just because
the music has a beat doesn’t mean
it’s good; because you yell doesn’t
mean you have a point. Here we are
stuck. I guess we have to just soak
it all up. Suck. Absorb. Inhale. Intake.
Dwell in the murky insanity, the
tiresome infectious muck. Until
we can finally, mercifully, take
the stage for ourselves, turn
this beat around; fingers crossed
they don’t feel the same about us.

—Julie Ann Baker Brin, 2nd place in the 2020 Kansas Authors Club District 7 poetry contest

ARCHITECHTONICS (1st verse/sneak peek)

Some mason on the make
stacked my bricks the wrong way.
One windy day a huff
will deconstruct my façade,
... (continued in publication; purchasing info below) ...

STORM WARNING (1st verse/sneak peek)

Lightning stashes, a river-bolt,
flux, wicked stream,
rebel shudder of thunder,
aroma-tart-zap!
... (continued in publication; purchasing info below) ...

—Julie Ann Baker Brin, from
Kansas's  Best Emerging Poets 2019: An Anthology
Compiled & Edited by Z Publishing House
(2 of Julie Ann Baker Brin's poems published)

To purchase through Watermark Books:

https://www.watermarkbooks.com/book/9781672516723 

ABOVE 

this little girl
on this side of the line
is dying 

while that little girl
on that side of the line
is buying 

and this little girl
who sees it all
is crying 

because she doesn’t see
any lines when she
is flying

—Julie Ann Baker (Brin)
From Wichita NOW Times
(10 poems published)
October, 1994