Sculpture by Mark Behme	Poetry by JoAnne Growney
"Drop Dead Gorgeous" and "Cupcake Boy"	Lovely Love A beautiful girl and a pretty boy are a match that's bound to happen-- for both know how to kiss and tell and to love (both quickly and often). He brags that she's drop-dead gorgeous; he's sweeter than chocolate, she cries. Helpless voyeurs, we watch when they kiss to see if they open their eyes. The world most loves a story of love whose lovers love much too much-- for then a sad ending is certain to come and the rest of us feel our good luck.
"Split Tales"	Which Girl Am I? The girl who's not forced to divide into the good girl and the real one is a lucky one. I was eleven when I felt a crack begin. In time I fully split--two minds took on two heads, two faces, two cuts of hair. Mock feelings serve as well as true ones, I told myself --but buried parts still surface like cicadas in their year. Long division is difficult and plagued with remainders. A girl with two heads is like a bird with one wing.

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