Issue 6, Summer 2010

Bumbershoot 2010: Editor’s Preface

Poetical Mathematicals: Poems by J. Patrick Lewis

William Carlos Williams’s Pizza   J. Patrick Lewis

Robert Frost’s Boxer Shorts   J. Patrick Lewis

Edward Lear’s Elephant With Hot Dog   J. Patrick Lewis

Emily Dickinson’s Telephone Book   J. Patrick Lewis

Edgar Allan Poe’s Apple Pie   J. Patrick Lewis

About the Author  

Orsorum Light

Achilles  by Rose Kelleher

Size Four  by Wendy Sloan

Mutual Appraisal  by Michael Cantor

Cruciferous  by Caleb Powell

Toilet Triolet  by C.B. Anderson

At the FigLoaf Writers Conference  by Allen Tice

Web Feet: Internet Poems

Online Ode  by Chris O’Carroll

On the New Media  by Anna Evans

Facebook Psycho  by Melissa Balmain

The Creeping Unknown  by Richard Stevenson

Emily Dickinson Online - 2 Poems  by Barbara Crooker

Incommunicado  by B. J. Lee

Licinius  by Laura Hershey

The Intepretation of Dreams  by Margery Hauser

Freecycle  by Scot Slaby

Microsoft!® what light through yonder Windows® breaks?  by Mary Cresswell

Seriously Funny

Pantoum for TMZ  by Michael Angrosino

This is Just a Quiz  by Midge Goldberg

Obligatory  by LaDonna English

Mid-Life Limericks  by Stephen Scaer

Washington Memoir  by J.D. Smith

President Clinton Speaks to the Conference of Clergy  by James Toupin

Talkin’ Those 2008 Financial Crisis Blues  by Wendy Sloan

Spoof

All the Mold Can Stay  by Laura Garrison

Sylvia Plath’s Chicken Crosses The Road  by Jennifer Reeser

Arrgh Poetica MMX  by Esther Greenleaf Murer

Oh, Bod  by Melissa Balmain

Banquet’s Ghost  by Margery Hauser

I, Dog of Hamlet  by Paul-John Ramos

Much Ado About The Outhouse  by Jim Price

Word Play

Beyond the Pale  by Mary Cresswell

Plot with Epilog  by Esther Greenleaf Murer

Children’s Verse

Shadow Boxing  by Richard Stevenson

The Dreadful Galorkum  by Stephani Schaefer

Muddle Trouble  by Stephani Schaefer

My Furry Feet  by John Whitworth

The Sentient Creature Feature

Ode to a Pigeon  by Laura Garrison

Man and Dog in Park  by Peter Swanson

Old Possum’s Impractical Doggerel  by Chris O’Carroll

The Ballad of the Naughty Poodle  by B.J Lee

Four Beasties  by Gail White

Bugs, Us: Seven Limericks  by Scot Slaby

The Nile  by Emily Burns

Bad Catitudes: Haiku  by Joan Pond

In My House We Swallow Canaries  by Mary Cresswell