Contributor: James Robert Rudolph

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Bugling baby bunting
center of your swirl,
squawky talky jabberwocky
clever clacking chrysalis.

A teeming wonderland
special because it’s yours,
the kaleidoscope tumbles, then
another postcard from your
thrilled and fetal head.


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James Robert Rudolph is a retired psychologist and teacher having returned to old haunts in northern New Mexico after a busy career in Minneapolis. He believes in old-style magical realism, that inspired by the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the high desert, and the deep, broad sky of the American mountain west. Recent poems have appeared in The Artistic Muse, Mad Swirl, and Bewildering Stories, among others.