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for its joy, its consolation.</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>                                         Karen Alpha</div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Lakeshore With Dog</B></div> <bR> <div> Sometimes it's only light that matters</div> <div> low sun streaming into your retina</div> <div> Recently there was storming but now</div> <div> near sunset, clouds blow clear</div> <div> Clean this new fresh air</div> <div> until you can't stop breathing</div> <div> in, breathe it in - a cold drug</div> <div> like they shoot up your arm</div> <div> in the operating room</div> <bR> <div> Sometimes it's the color that makes your eyes water</div> <div> when sky turns indigo through trees</div> <div> hills violet, lake purple and green</div> <div> white clouds every color but white</div> <div> With your back to the afternoon sun</div> <div> you only want to run into color</div> <div> your feet never touch forest's bright thatch</div> <div> you think you're looking at art</div> <div> your ears and tail fly back and your skin</div> <div> glows like the iridescent bark of birch trees</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Originally from Pittsburgh, Karen Alpha soon relocated to northern New York where she received a BA from St. Lawrence University.  After a stint in Cincinnati she and her family eventually settled in New York's southern Finger Lakes region.  She has been a librarian, social worker, antiques dealer, fitness instructor, college English instructor, ESL teacher and lifeguard, most of which she still is.  As a writer-in-residence in local schools, she directs the Short Story Project for students.</div> <bR> <div> Karen's own award-winning short stories have been appearing in literary journals and magazines for decades.  Most recently she has been delighted to place poems in several anthologies, among them <I>Knocking on the Silence: An Anthology of Poetry Inspired by the Finger Lakes </I>and <I>Listening to Water: The Susquehanna Watershed Anthology.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>All The Blue In The World</I> is her first collection of poems.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>All the Blue in the World</B></I></div> <div> is a hand-stitched paperbook with spine - 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