​POETRY  

" Bounty is a blessing for birds
                                  and we."

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August Near the Pacific
​by Kathy Gilbert

Anchovies fall from the sky
dropped by pelicans or seagulls’
mouths full of fish.
The first time I saw the silver fish
eight inches long and gutted
they were dead on the sidewalk.
I feared mafia or gang warnings.
Now I know a surfeit of sea
fish mean some slip between 
the cup and the lip
Bounty is a blessing for birds
                                  and we.

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​Kathy Gilbert received her MFA from San Francisco State University in 2013 after a career in public transport. She received the Mark Linenthal Poetry Award in 2012 from SFSU and won the San Francisco Browning Society Gita Specker Award three times for her dramatic monologues. She was commissioned to write a play for the 2015 San Francisco Olympians Festival. Her one act Delphin and the Children of Amphitrite was performed at the Exit Theater. She also tutors third graders, studies tai chi, practices yoga and swims. Her new book Aprils Three: Poems and Photographs is now available locally at Bird & Beckett, West Portal Books, Green Apple on Clement and on Amazon. ​

Other works in this issue:
Poetry: 
​Pinniped for Patty
Invented Etymologies

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