SYNDIC No. 43
September 2021
Compiled/Published by LeRoy Chatfield
Table of Contents
Letter from the Publisher
Artwork ~ “12 Famous Women” ~ Cheryl DeCiantis (Arizona)
ProsePoems ~ “Yakety Yak” & Audition” ~ David Giannini (Massachusetts)
Poem ~ “Slow Elegy (for Joan)” ~ Dov Rose (Washington State)
Narration ~ “Mary ‘n Battis” ~ Richard Baldwin Cook ~ (Maryland)
Song ~ “Alberta Bound” ~ Michael Lee Johnson (Illinois)
Poem ~ “Weeping in the Promised Land” ~ Jennifer Lagier (California)
Poem ~ “Gongoozling” ~ Charles Rammelkamp (Maryland)
Artwork ~ “Rorschach Drawings” ~ Francis Poole (Delaware)
Poem ~ “Happy Birthday Gale Bataille” ~ Bill Berkowitz (California)
Poem ~ “7-8 October 1943” ~ Tony Dawson (Spain)
Poem ~ “Tell Me the Truth” ~ Laura Fisk (Wales)
Poem ~ Incident At the Local Target ~ Bob Cooperman (Colorado)
Artwork ~ Collage ~ Bill Wolak (New Jersey)
2 Narrative Poems ~ Stanley H. Barkan (New York)
Ancestor Stories ~ Catherine Sevenau (California)
Photography ~ Carlos Ramos (Portugal)
Poem ~ “Thing on my Chest” ~ Roger Netzer (Connecticut)
Story ~ “Lines, or A Portrait Contemplates Its Audience” ~ Nitin Jagdish (Maryland)
Poem ~ “Where I’m From” ~ Kaley Vides (Maryland)