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CONTENTS
Editors’ Note
Editors’ Prizes
Contributors
Jerry Dillon Pratt – So This Is
Michael Atkinson – Notes on the Limerick
Ruth Bavetta – Sixty-seven Years
Laura Bernstein-Machlay – Hair
Keith Berry – five beers and one oxycontin for the movies
Catherine Black – Cured
Sharon Black – The Ex-Collector
Jan Bottiglieri – One Could Have a Cape Made Entirely of Buttons
Marion Boyer – Jake, Moonlighting; Jake, Dying
Elizabeth Bradfield – Why They Went
Bill Brown – Coyotes, Lake County, Colorado
Mike Chasar – Somewhere Tonight As the Train – poem (PDF)
Barbara Crooker – The Deconstruction of Snow
Mark Cunningham – The Diaphragm and The Fourth Finger
Steve Davenport – Horse Opera 5
John Dickson – Construction
Wendy Drexler – Earth
David Edelman – Bird and Ball
Danna Ephland – For the Girls Who Show Up to Dance Class
Kate Evans – Tilly’s Birthday Party
Adrian Ayres Fisher – Ghazal for a Dry Season
Geoffrey Forsyth – Three Days - poem (PDF)
Joe Franchere – mater dolorosa
Matthew Frank – Animals
Jean Gallagher – Early Photograph II
Ray Gonzalez – Prophecies
Jamie Granger – Yellow Tab
Arielle Greenberg – Pentecost
Sara Greenslit – The Pale Turn Towards Between
Kelle Groom – Luckily
Therese Halscheid – Excavating Prayers – poem (PDF)
Ava Leavell Haymon – Escaping the Pieta
Carolyn Hembree – Prose on Drowning My Dead Uncle’s Mistress
Andrea Heny – Sword Dance
Wayne Hogan – Con and Pro Comma
Walter Holland – Ed White
Christine Horton – The Rattling of Ding-Ding’s Bones or the Logistics of Drowning
Paul Hostovsky – Pictures at a Reunion
Elizabeth Ann James – Tinselpome #1 and Tinselpome #3
Susan Johnson – Day, Memory, Lake and A Day Like No Other
Raphael Kosek – Crows
Sharon Kraus – Lulav
Susanna Lang – Sheep
Don Langford – Vivid Dreams, Antarctica
Hiram Larew – Cuff
Diane LeBlanc – Finding a Small White Feather in a Used Copy of Raymond Carver’s Ultramarine
Jennifer Markell – Samsara
Jack Martin – Without Poetry
Kathleen McGookey – Expectations; Babies
Jacob Meyer – We Are Ugly But We Have the Music
Carol E. Miller – Send-off
Rob Morris – Nepal
John S. O’Connor – Eradication: Pulling Up by the Roots
Greg Rappleye – Gentians
Richard Robbins – Rebels
Kathleen Rooney – Pathetic Fallacy
M.A. Schaffner – Pro Patria Mori
Roy Seeger – A Variation on Sweetness
Dakota Shultz – Street Theology: [The Mechanism Could Be] Autosuggestion
Kevin Simmonds – The Smell of Nutmeg poem (PDF) and The Poet, 1955
Dan Sklar – Poem Here
Merry Speece – Malaria, with Robert Browning
Michael Steffen – “Get a Life”
George Stevenson – A Christmas Poem
Samn Stockwell – Account of the Repair and At the Pharmacy
Matthew Thorburn – For Friends Who Are Married and Expecting More Babies
David Thornbrugh – Going Native
Tony Trigilio – Special Prosecutor
S. Brady Tucker – Alpen Suiss Jungfrau
Sally Van Doren – Dear
Jack Vian – My Soul, he said, Is Far From Here
Angela Vogel – Paul Speaks in Thessalonica
Matt Zambito – And It Is And
Translations
Ioan Flora – The I and A Field Sparrow
translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Alina Cârâc
António Gedeão – Man
translated by Alexis Levitin
Takamura Kōtarō – If Chieko
translated by John Peters
Arthur Rimbaud – The Lice Nuns
translated by Diane Furtney
