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The Palimpsest Review - Volume 10

Palimpsest onLine! 's Professional Writers at Work

H. Kassia Fleisher: "Spinning Miss Stein's Grave"

Todd Davis: "Looking for theLight"

Prudence Grimes: "Writing My Father's Stories"

Jeff Worley: "Tapping the Wellspring of Language"

Ray Petersen: "The Cardinal Trait of the Writer"

Dev Hathaway: "The Art of the Story"

Karen Blomain: Two Poems

Len Roberts: Seven Poems

Len Roberts: Cohoes Theater (PDF Book)

Maria Jacketti: "Objects of Poetry"

Jim Manis: "Struggling to Publish"

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Sarah Etter: “Concaves”

Marissa Molina: "The Day I Wasn’t There"

Andrew Timberlake-Newell: "Smokie"

Anthony Kocur: "To the Edge"

David Kim: "Young and Perverted"

Ryan Morini: "B – Movie Enthusiast"

Joe Giachero: "Whatever Came First"

Meghan Elliott: "Sound"

Veronika L Daddona: "Driver" and "Lamentia"

Ronell Smith: "The 1988 Holiday Barbie"

Charles Howells: "Bandwagon Patriots"

Andrew Noll: "Ten Feet Behind J.F.K."

Sarah E. Smith: "Autumn Skies"

Daniel Debiec: "A Morning in Missoula" and "into the rain"

Ryan Melling: "Hand in Hand"

Andraleen Zelonis: "Let’s Play"

Kevin Cope: "House Guest"

Becky Liscusky: "I Like Dogs and Frogs" and "You know the pan’s hot"

Amber Shinskie: "Scent of a Cherry Cigar"

Zachary Bricker: "Bedtime Story"

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Last updated July 3, 2004; first published to the web: July 3, 2004.

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Becky Liscusky – Hazleton

I Like Dogs and Frogs

I like Dogs
I like Frogs
I
   like
           to
                walk
                         my
                               Dog
I
    like
           to
                 walk
                          my
                               Frog

                                       Dog on leash
                                       Frog on leash
                                    Dog and Frog on leash
We all like to take long walks in the park
Me,
         Dog,
                   & Frog
Frog hops up hills
Dog runs down trails
Both swim with swans

You know the pan’s hot …

But why do you still touch it?
You know it’s gonna burn,
But there is your hand, reaching out for the handle.
Some people just never learn —
A hot pan is always gonna burn.
But still you need to feel it again
And again to remind yourself that it is hot.
Because once in a while you go back to a time it
Was nice and cool, it was safe to touch,
You wouldn’t get burned.
Sometimes you forget how hot it really can get,
How much it can hurt,
And all you are left with is the pain
And a burn mark.

Becky Liscusky's poems appear here with her express written permission and cannot be reprinted or otherwise used without her express written permission.

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