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                              A MAGAZINE OF FICTION, POETRY & MORE!
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ISSUE #11
 
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June 2004
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***BIO*** JOHN BIRKBECK: I was born in 1930, and didn't start writing poetry till I was in my 40's.  Since then I've published five books of poetry, and have been in nu,erous magazines, journals and papers. At present I'm the producer and host of a local cable TV show called "The Poets' Corner.

**LINK** to John's website: http://www.angelfire.com/ia/carmine
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QUEBEC LICENSE PLAIT
by John Birkbeck
The car sings along the autoroute
purring like a dreaming cat,
the windows rolled up, a barricade,
against assaults of hardrock tunes
of the Yankeeworld beyond
the northblasting howls
of white Tundra winds.

Kidneys stretch against
pleasure-pain of pis-pis,
so long-ago pressuring
waking dreams of release,
and the tyres sing along
with thoughts of warm sun,
girls lazing on white beaches
below leaning, whispering palms,
far below immediate horizons.

Oh yes-- the frontier looms
from the grand southern blue
of the Saxonworld beyond the
bug-smeared windscreen, eh?

I come, I come to the land of
my descendants unborn!