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FICTION, NONFICTION, AND POETRY SAMPLES
For twenty years the Chrysalis Reader has featured many writers and artists, including new work by Robert Bly, Kate Chappell, Susan Cheever, Larry Dossey, Wyn Cooper, John Eccles, William Kloefkorn, Raymond Moody, Richard Moskowitz, Linda Pastan, Stephen Larsen, Wesley McNair, Franklin Reeve, Bernie Siegel, Pat Schneider, Virgil Suárez, Wilson Van Dusen, and many others.
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EMBRACING RELATIONSHIPS (2005)
Editor's Note
Report from the Hive: The Heavenly Hookup
by Robert F. Lawson
PREFACE
Old Friend
by Terry Marotta
PART I: SEEKING
New Math
by Jean L. Arnold
The Question
by Walter R. Christie
Packing Up, Heading Out (poem)
by Phayvanh Luekhamhan
He Is Not Her Donald
by Susan Ferguson
The Embrace (poem)
by R.G. Cantalupo
In My Own Life (poem)
by Tim Mayo
Chrysalis
by Marielena Zuniga
Heaven's Gate (poem)
by J. Stephen Rhodes
PART II: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS
Pallone and the Homeless Poet
by Terry Mullins
Mayhem (poem)
by Susan Wheatley
The Man in the Pinstripe Suit
by Zarah Blair
Swing Dance (poem)
by William Hagen
Rosa's Offer
by Benjamin DaSilva
In the Footsteps of the Australopithecine (poem)
by Stuart Arotsky
Beautiful
by Joe Canzano
PART III: PARTNERS
Volunteers (poem)
by Chris Bunsey
When Two Became One
by Sandra K. Heggen
Plowing (poem)
by Barry Ballard
To the Foundations
by Nancy Tilly
Partners
by Bernie Siegel
Expecting (poem)
by Charlotte McCaffrey
Solid Line
by Vivian Lawry
Dancing at Midnight
by Elizabeth Engstrom
Perennials (poem)
by Art Stein
The Gnostic and the Atheist
by Tereza Coraggio
PART IV: FRIENDS AND FAMILY
Papergirl
by Vincent DeCarolis
For Myers (poem)
by Susan Scott Thompson
Fishing Lessons
by Lisa Leshaw
Inheritance (poem)
by Mary P. Chatfield
Stretch Marks
by Joe Lunievicz
The Three Musketeers
by Henry G. Miller
What a Cute Little Psycho Dog
by Lani Wright
Lem's Café, 1968
by Carol Lem
Family Album (poem)
by Sally Sullivan
PART V: FINDING
Abode of Simplicity
by Tom Hansen
Range of Light: My Life with John Muir
by Duane Tucker
Bee Dance (poem)
by Celia Stuart-Powles
Making Peace with the Turks
by Kay Mouradian
Elegy (poem)
by Tom Lombardo
Peak Seasons, Off Seasons
by Phoebe Baker Hyde
Backyard Music (poem)
by Deborah H. Doolittle
When the Words Blur (poem)
by Sylvia Shaw
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LETTING GO (2004)
Editor's Note
New Windows for an Old House
by Robert F. Lawson
PREFACE
Isle of Mystery and Promise
by Melanie B. Smallie
PART I: THE BIG PICTURE
Understanding Why
by Bernie Siegel
Generations
by Kathleen Curzie Gajdos
The Causes of War: Indifference (poem)
by F.D. Reeve
An East-West Reflection on Detachment
by Linda Brown Holt
Dionysus at Tengboche
by Jeffrey S. Rasley
Remembrance
by Donna Massie Ownby
Thorn by Thorn (poem)
by Diane LaRae Bodach
Fetching My Guru
by Lucy Aron
Letting the Universe Inside
by John L. Hitchcock
Summer Zendo (poem)
by Carol Lem
The Stone Buddhas
by Lani Wright
PART II: ON THE FENCE
Embraced
by Ralph Emerson Pray
Choosing to Feed on the Wind
by Linda Lancione Moyer
A Pedestrian Incident
by Patte LeVan
The Independent (poem)
by Eileen Berry
El Niño
by Penny Susan Rose
Outing (poem)
by K.E. Duffin
Happy to See You
by Ronna Wineberg
Well-paired (poem)
by Barry Butson
Three Faces
by Diane Halsted
How Many Breaths?
by Wendy L. Brown
I Am Putting the Rattle of Happiness Down (poem)
by Asher Pucciarello
PART III: LETTING GO
Unconditional Release (poem)
by Craig Challender
Shall We Gather at the River?
by Catherine Lazers Bauer
Indian Motorcycle (poem)
by Jean C. Howard
Letting Go-Life's Greatest Challenge
by Glenda Hawley
To the Man Who Died Trying to Take Flight (poem)
by Elizabeth Oakes
Othello and Miss Farley
by Naomi Gladish Smith
Crickets
by Laura Mueller
My Father (poem)
by Vincent DeCarolis
In the End, Heroes
by R. H. Herzog
Ladakh Time (poem)
by Art Stein
Jagged Lines
by Rita Quinton
PART IV: NEW GROWTH
Geronimo!
by Jean L. Arnold
Silken Threads (poem)
Eleanora Patterson
Willing
by Traci L. Slatton
A Civilized Thanksgiving with the Ex (poem)
by Carl Auerbach
The One that Got Away
by Charlene Wakefield
Dejar (poem)
by Virgil Suárez
"Hot Metalmorphosis"
by Jonathan Fry
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