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<b>SEUILS</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(c) Paul-Georges Leroux, 2014</span>.</b><br />
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1. Kinderszenen<br />
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Le contour des premi<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">è</span>res choses, les premi<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">è</span>res g<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">é</span>ographies<br />
La peur de ne plus rien voir<br />
L'espoir qui se r<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">évolte,</span> l'amour qui se perd<br />
Mouvantes circonf<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">é</span>rences d'un blanc soleil<br />
La cr<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">ê</span>te des vagues et les cimes de neige<br />
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Le vent, le courant, le temps emportent nos confins<br />
inlassables cartographes d'une r<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">é</span>alit<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">é</span><br />
dont les fronti<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">è</span>res fugaces laissent passer nos r<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">ê</span>ves<br />
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Oubli, Insu<br />
mots <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">é</span>tranges, syllabes furtives<br />
d'une herm<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">é</span>tique math<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">é</span>matique d'ombres<br />
d'un regard aveugle <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">à</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> </span>lui-m<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">ê</span>me<br />
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Seuils d'un continent englouti<br />
au fond des pages d'un cahier d'<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">é</span>colier<br />
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3. M<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">é</span>lanome<br />
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S'endormir inerte sous un solstice d'hiver<br />
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Se r<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">é</span>veiller en pleine nuit<br />
Poser les yeux sur une constellation<br />
un peu plus brillante que les autres<br />
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Sommeiller<br />
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Se r<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">é</span>veiller de nouveau de ressentir<br />
confus<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">é</span>ment<br />
quelque chose<br />
quelque part<br />
se d<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">é</span>placer pour l'<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">é</span>ternit<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">é</span><br />
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Se rendormir une fois plus<br />
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R<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">ê</span>ver d'un aigle ravisseur<br />
se posant sur une branche enneig<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">é</span>e<br />
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sans que la branche ni la neige ne bougent<br />
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Published in, <i>Vallum 11:1, Thresholds</i>, 2014.<br />
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<br />Vallum Magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609359527514868690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997125989859459385.post-13812306679426396162014-10-15T13:06:00.000-07:002014-10-15T13:06:37.126-07:00The Vallum Award for Poetry 2014 WINNERS!<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><img align="none" alt="2014 WINNERS" border="0" height="402" hspace="0" src="https://bb2f2938e7-custmedia.vresp.com/ddda8303cc/2014%20WINNERS.jpg" style="height: 402px; width: 300px;" title="2014 WINNERS" vspace="0" width="300" /></span></span><br style="text-align: center;" /><br style="text-align: center;" /><br style="text-align: center;" /><strong style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; text-align: center;">1st PRIZE: $750<br /></strong><br style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; text-align: center;">ALEXEI PERRY</span><br style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; text-align: center;">“The Long Study”</span><br style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; text-align: center;">(Canada)</span><br style="text-align: center;" /><br style="text-align: center;" /><strong style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; text-align: center;">2nd PRIZE: $250</strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; text-align: center;"> </span><br style="text-align: center;" /><br style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; text-align: center;">CARLA BARKMAN</span><br style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; text-align: center;">“Last evening I stumbled”</span><br style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; text-align: center;">(Canada) </span><br style="text-align: center;" /><br style="text-align: center;" /><strong style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; text-align: center;">HONOURABLE MENTIONS:</strong><br style="text-align: center;" /><br style="text-align: center;" /><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">SUSAN HUGHSON<br />“Apple to Apple”<br />(Canada)<br /><br />DOMENICO CAPILONGO<br />“pass this note”<br />(Canada)<br /><br /><br />Thank you to everyone who entered this year's contest.<br />Winning poems will appear in issue 12:1 "Surrender."<br /><br /><br />To view poems of previous winners, please visit our website <a href="http://www.vallummag.com/contestwinners.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! </span></span></span><br style="text-align: center;" /><span style="text-align: center;"> </span>Vallum Magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609359527514868690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997125989859459385.post-16461656074672969742014-10-15T12:23:00.000-07:002014-10-15T13:03:31.615-07:00Eleni Zisimatos reviews Mark Morgenstern's film, "Before I Go" (EWOLA Cinema).<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mark Morgenstern’s film, “Before I Go,” in
competition at the Festival du nouveau cinema, and which premiered at Cinema du
Parc in Montreal October 12<sup>th</sup>, is about the movements of a house. It
is not a ‘home,’ there are no puppies or kittens or soft fluffy images. The
cinematography is bleak. There is focus on parts of the house requiring repair.
But it would seem that the most central part of this strange, haunting, is the
house’s need for attention. Although it is dismembered and dismantled, there
are figures who appear as fragments, figures who would seem to belong there,
but who have no identity, as they are portrayed in the film. There is a
disconnect between the physicality of the house and the physicality of the
human forms. It is almost as if the two are caught in some kind of
disparagement of time—and they cannot communicate. The ‘house’ is often
considered to be symbolically associated with the psyche. Bachelard has written
on the importance of the home and how it is central to one’s conception of
identity. Morgenstern shows us the house and he shows us some human forms, but
there is no relationship between the two. The house is not a home, in
Bachelard’s interpretation of home. So, what is this house we observe, so
closely, so fearfully? </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Morgenstern’s technical brilliance and
associative cinematography are so impressive that one is left breathless. The
house is trying to speak—is it a haunted house? It very well could be. The most
chilling part of this film is towards the end, with a woman sitting on a bed, with
her back towards us. She could easily be construed to be some kind of ghost or
figure of madness. We seem to drift with this woman’s presence, and this is a
key point in the film where I felt a truly dangerous ‘presence.’ The house
needs attention. The psyche would seem to be unraveling. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The magnificence of this short film is that it
creates the aura of exteriority. We are not inside it, even though we view
inside the physical house. And this is what many family houses are like in
today’s soulless and mindless societies. Morgenstern’s, “Before I Go,” is a
cutting-edge portrayal of the breakdown of the family unit, of the suffering of
individuals who try to create community and communion within their houses, but
fail. And the true horror is that families today--no longer within a caring and
nurturing environment or a home—are transformed into objects in an essentially
mad series of unconnected pieces and parts. This is the stunning force behind
this film.</span></span></span></div>
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Vallum Magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609359527514868690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997125989859459385.post-1583829693041851652014-09-30T04:24:00.000-07:002014-10-01T13:07:21.102-07:00Poem by L. Wayne Russell<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR-CA"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">TRANSGRESSIONS</span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(C) L.W. Russell 2014</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The world’s soul has gone incognito <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">as the devil incarnate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Angels lay stagnant at the bottom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">of my shot glass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In between inaudible words are<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">spoken, air bubbles surface; frantic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The cries of angels begin to fade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One by one a begging ghost can be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">seen cutting through the lukewarm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">surface of my straight bourbon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And now I know, what was pure in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">my life has become no more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The angels lie in the bottom of their<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">liquid coffin, wings motionless,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">voices silent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Father forgive me, for I have sinned...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">again and again and again....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I cannot seem to stop this madness!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">help me...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the angels have but all disappeared from<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">my life...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One by one by one they go, sinking into<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the depths of a past that they can never<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">come back from.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">* for all those I have lost to alcohol, may you
rest in eternal peace*</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Vallum Magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609359527514868690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997125989859459385.post-1308150773153966902014-09-16T10:55:00.000-07:002014-09-16T10:55:39.962-07:00Vallum Award for Poetry 2014: Shortlist Announced! <br />
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Vallum Magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609359527514868690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997125989859459385.post-43489544554415399962014-09-11T10:33:00.002-07:002014-09-11T10:33:48.921-07:00CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What does it mean to bend, to yield? Surrender manifests in different ways: joy, despair, a willingness to give up one’s “totality” for someone or something other than him or her self. We surrender to vices, to glory, to the divine, or to the void. How do you “surrender?” Send us your best poems!</div>
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Vallum Magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609359527514868690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997125989859459385.post-23159266045877870902014-09-04T10:22:00.002-07:002014-09-04T10:23:07.702-07:00Vallum Newsletter September 2014<br />
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Vallum Magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609359527514868690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997125989859459385.post-57858814582351171632014-09-02T11:40:00.001-07:002014-09-02T11:43:22.554-07:00JUST RELEASED: "A REMARKABLE GREY HORSE" poems by Thurston Moore + John Kinsella ! <br />
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NOW AVAILABLE!!! <i>A Remarkable Grey Horse</i> -- a collaborative poetry chapbook by THURSTON MOORE (musician and founder of experimental rock group SONIC YOUTH) and JOHN KINSELLA (author of over 30 books of poetry, fiction, and criticism)!<br />
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"Celebrating in the unnatural, reveling in the rebellious, <i>A Remarkable Grey Horse</i> is a collision of skateboards, Doris Day, punk rock, lighthouses, spume, skuzz, and Rimbaud. Here, bleak cityscapes, squalid apartments, and polluted waters urge the reader to 'explore disgust' and seek freedom."<br />
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This week’s poetic
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MEGHG BK UCG KMUHP MEG
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">"The beginning of eternity</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">The end of time and
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">The beginning of
every end,</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">MEG WGMMGH G</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Final Hint: HUFGHM
LHXOGK<o:p></o:p></div>
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Adventure! This is the second-last week to guess the mystery poet correctly to
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This week’s poetic
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<span lang="EN-US">"I never was, am always to be,<br />
No one ever saw me, nor ever will<br />
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To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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KTIE X LEUKMWP SXP ?<o:p></o:p></div>
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At night they come
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This thing all things devours;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gnaws iron, bites steel;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grinds hard stones to meal;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Slays king, ruins town,</span><br />
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This week's poetic cipher: MEGHG XHG CU QXBWK BC MEG IBMP UA MEG ZGXZ<br />
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First think of the person who lives in disguise,<br />
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies,<br />
Next tell me what's always the last thing to mend,<br />
The middle of middle and end of the end?<br />
And finally give me the sound often heard,<br />
During the search for a hard-to-find word.<br />
Now string them together, and answer me this,<br />
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss? <br />
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X KDBZGH<br />
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Vallum Magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609359527514868690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997125989859459385.post-6979108708540047322014-06-18T10:27:00.000-07:002014-06-18T10:27:10.138-07:00Who is poetry for?Article that asks whether or not poets should be accountable, whether or not poetry should be more mainstream...comments??<br />
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http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jun/02/is-jeremy-paxman-right-new-poetry-inaccessibilty<br />
<br />Vallum Magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609359527514868690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997125989859459385.post-12623934072465834652014-06-14T06:42:00.003-07:002014-06-14T10:21:38.238-07:00Bits & pieces <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time passes, we reflect. We have hopes and visions for the future. Past scars are still visible. We move on, leave chaos behind... have a good weekend, /ez</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel you near, in a heartbeat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I believe you speak, I believe</span></div>
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Vallum Magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609359527514868690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997125989859459385.post-88433057670600520852014-06-11T12:01:00.000-07:002014-06-11T12:13:02.876-07:00Week 7: Vallum's Cryptographic Adventure! <div class="MsoNormal">
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Vallum Magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609359527514868690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997125989859459385.post-38690822860848949842014-06-10T14:32:00.000-07:002014-06-14T06:27:59.054-07:00NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER!!Congratulations to<b> Patrick Lane </b>for winning a<b> SILVER</b> medal in this year's National Magazine Awards!!<br />
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