Aqua Regia.Aqua Regia F. J. Bergmann Parallel Press 372 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, Madison, WI 53575 1893311872, $10.00 http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu 1-800-636-0071 F. J. Bergmann is the kind of award winning poet who sells used books, has had considerable experience training horses, has illustrated a manual of interesting diseases, and was even a rural postal carrier. These days she contributes her verse and commentary to madpoetry.org and has her own website at www.fibitz.com "Aqua Regia" is a little chapbook chapbook, one of the pamphlets formerly sold in Europe and America by itinerant agents, or "chapmen." Chapbooks were inexpensive—in England often costing only a penny—and, like the broadside, they were usually anonymous and undated. compendium of her own very special prose poetry that entertains, reminisces, and occasional inspires thoughtful reflection. 'Summer': it is best to succumb/soon after the solstice/just before warm dusk/in the dwindling dwin·dle v. dwin·dled, dwin·dling, dwin·dles v.intr. To become gradually less until little remains. v.tr. To cause to dwindle. See Synonyms at decrease. amber/gold striking through trees/to stroke our naked skins/in shadowy quagga quagga (kwăg`ə), extinct type of zebra. It formerly inhabited open plains in S Africa, where its range overlapped that of the common zebra (Equus burchelli). stripes/cinnamon bracken rustles/far away the phalarope phalarope (făl`ərōp'), common name for members of the family Phalaropodidae, shore birds, called "little swimming sandpipers." Phalaropes, small, dainty birds with webbed toes, are the most aquatic of the shore bird group. sings |
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