Hot sun beating down.
Vivid colors all around.
Chalkfest is in town!
– Jen Janiak

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Racy’s o Racy’s
I blend in to the couches
Wearing flannel shirts

My longboard soars past
Eagles on the riverside
Heaven in concrete
– Kristie Ann Bement

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Weary in summer
Friends floating by like hot nights
Where you can be free
– GR Maierhofer

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Summer’s siren song
Snaps lawn chairs to attention
Mosh pit labyrinth

Incarceration
In need of a location
Pissing and moaning
– Bruce Warren

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A medieval knight
Shops for groceries in town
At Ron’s Castle Foods
– Jimmie Kaska

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Stone thrown from the hack;
brooms hover ominously
and yelling erupts
– Zack Gauck

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Shoes slung over bridge
Always stop me from walking –
Now barefoot myself.

If I jump right here
Where the water falls, Big Falls,
Would laughs come in waves?
– Diane Embry

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City breathes new, old,
Rebuild, renew, renaissance,
Phoenix still rising
– Chris Zimmerman

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Frozen falls –
sound of melting
with an echo
– Scott Steffens

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The fiberglass shines
In the sunlight and you just
Stand there with your

Giant donut and
People pose for pictures in
Front of you all day.
– Alexandra Brown

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When will the snow melt?
I miss my Farmers Market
And Pad Thai for lunch.
– Daniel Petersen

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Shovel the driveway
The snowplow driver hates me
Driveway hates him back
– Tim Wells

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Winter cold chills bones
Christmas cheer will surely warm
Stokes the fires of love
– DL Schwoch

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Crisp, clear, refreshing
Winters arctic air surrounds
Reviving ones soul …
– Rich Meredith

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“Homer Pound: first white
boy born in Chippewa Falls.”
Son blasted London!
– John David Rose

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Build west of courthouse                                   
Transform river properties                                
Mirror Phoenix Park
– Rozanna Bejin