Unsold Poems for the July 1, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl

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The following poems from the July 1, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl are currently available. Poems may be sponsored via PayPal -- there's a permanent donation button on my Dreamwidth profile page -- or you can write to me and discuss other methods. There are still verses left in the linkback poems "Delight in Another," "A Sense of Weather Changes," "Ouroboros Insects," "The Loving Embrace of Night," "Generations of Cooks Past," "Homefree and Clear, " "One Bite at a Time," "Stars and Diamonds," "Mishpocha," "Changing Your Nature," and "Besa."


"But an Empty Shell"
Story Date: Monday, May 20, 2013
Summary: After Marjane Carol Moore loses her library job, the school really goes downhill.
560 lines, Buy It Now = $280

Marjane found out
about the bad news
at the worst possible time.


"Happy Instruments of Salvation"
Story Date: 1670s-1690s
Amity Davenport tries to fix the Puritan Church.
232 lines, Buy It Now = $116

Amity Davenport was a good Puritan,
or at least he tried his best to be one.


"A Stronger Woman"
Story Date: August 2015
Summary: Fortressa deals with a harasser at Conkling College.
116 lines, Buy It Now = $58

Fortressa was displeased
with Conkling College.


"Upholding It, Wherever Found"
Story Date: Thursday, November 3, 2016
Summary: Gail Somerville works for Interpol, but feels increasingly uncomfortable with it.
256 lines, Buy It Now = $128