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In this issue...

Eye Glasses

Glassy or Classy ~ Pervin Chhapkhanawala

Candle p6

Waxing and Waning ~ Rach Loveday

Courtroom p7

Turnabout ~ Sean Young

Credit Card p8

Reaching Limits ~ Andrea Zappone

Knick-Knacks p9

The Things ~ S. V. Wolfland

Hairbrush p10

A Brush with Time ~ Peggy Fletcher

Pumpkin p11

A Pumpkin’s Life ~ C.D. Reimer

Park Bench p12

In Loving Memory ~ Heather Miller

Guitar p14

Fretting ~ Rhonda Melanso

Army Uniform p15

Army Uniform ~ Newborn by Norma West Linder

Tattoo p15

We Are Tattoos ~ Lynn Tait

Wishing Well p16

Life of a Wishing Well ~ Rebecca R. Taylor

Umbrella p18

The Umbrella ~ Debbie Okun Hill

Womb

p19

A Womb’s Love Song ~ Monique Berry

About Perspectives Magazine

ISSN

: 1715-9148

Frequency

: Biyearly

Founding Editor

: Monique Berry

Design and layout

: Monique Berry

Contact

: perspectivesmagazine@gmail.com

Site

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Photo credits

: All photos courtesy of BrianCobbledick

YNN

AIT

We are Tattoos, p15

Lynn Tait is an award-winning poet/ photographer living in Sarnia, ON.Her work has appeared in

The Windsor Review, lichen, Contemporary Verse 2

,and in over 50 North American anthologies. Shehas also published a chapbook titled

Breaking Away

. Her photos have adorned the cover of threepoetry books and one literary magazine.[lyta@sympatico.ca]

S. V. W

OLFLAND

The Things, p9

S.V. Wolfland has been published in magazinessuch as The Argotist Online, Spokes, TheBathyspheric Review, etc., in an anthology calledNorth Yorkshire One Nine Nine, and has a noveland three poetry chapbooks out - Porlock theWarlock and The Books of...Trilogy respectively.She works as editor of a live and written word e-newsletter, has appeared at many festivalsincluding the Glastonbury Festival, and is amember of artist's network The CartwheelsCollective. [www.cartwheels-collective.co.uk ]

Meet some of the contributors

C.D. R

EIMER

The Pumpkin, p11

C.D. Reimer lives and works in SiliconValley. His interests are ceramics,painting, tropical fish, and web programming.These keep him out of trouble when he’s not fixingbroken users and consoling hurt computers. He iscurrently working on his first novel, a short storycollection, and various short stories.[chris@cdreimer.com]

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Dear ReadersI thought is was important to acknowledge some important people:To Dr. Michael Cain and Penny Greenberg, my first two advertisers, your support meansmore to me than you will ever know.To Brian Cobbledick, your creativity helps make this magazine a success. If you couldphotograph my heart, you’d need a panoramic lens to capture the length of its smile.To Jennifer L. Foster, my friend, thank you for your honest input.Finally, a big thanks to my contributors; I wouldn’t have a magazine if it weren’t foryou!

Keep the ink flowing,

Monique Berry

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