<div style="text-align: center;"><br>"dirty, dirty<br>bird lying on its back -- only robin still enough<br>to palm in hand -- and to think this maybe<br>closest I'll ever come to touching dinosaurs --<br>makes me inconsolably lonely --"<br>
<br>-- Nicelle Hughes Davis, "Womanhood" from <u>Me, Apollo, and Everyone Else who ever wanted to be a Rock Star</u><br><br>"I'd follow my nature<br>and plan not a funeral<br>but a celebration<br><br>No end to desserts<br>
tables lined! Every creampuff<br>trifle, torte, and brulée<br> better to me, since I didn't bake"<br><br>-- Angela Thomson-Brenchley, excerpts from "In Memoriam of Myself"<br><br>"They met in the classic I like your ass, I liked your head kinda way."<br>
-- Brenda Varda, "ii." from "Seven Scenarios on Liquid Love"<br><br><br></div>*No Colloquium next week, February 3rd. Enjoy Writers Week!<br>**Colloquium February 10th,<b> </b>Aviva Kasowski. <b>Two reader spots currently available.</b><br>
***<b>Now Accepting:</b><b> Colloquium February 10th, three people to give introductions</b>.<br>