the well-deserved anthology issue
may 2002
notes from the eds
6_from_iss_3___
Thank you for your interest in
applying for the __________ position in Gate 4 of Chamber Complex
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matthew derby
Hey, but we're a long way from Canada
now. Long we are, and far, from the wheatfields and metric system
will eno
Intervals for her are the same
only cheaper, faster, so
wearable
jack kimball
People from three counties flock
to see the man who folds his wife like a pocket knife each night
kip knott
Quote anything and for a while
you're going to sound stuck. Rest, write, love, not in that order
sheila murphy
She smoothed her newborn hips,
got flashes of a warm night. Still Fall enough to hear the boys
at school, drilling down in numbers, fast catches and under jean
snatches in the leaves.
rachel sherman
a_pair_from_4___
I believe everything I read.
Every single written word crystallizes into fact.
matt marinovich
She was born in December in Baraboo
or thereabouts—small, still, blue, a girl, and, by some trick
of oxygen, alive.
dawn raffel
issue_5_flying_solo___
Cavort is a smartie word. It
was on the vocab quiz. Maybe Daddy knows it because he used to be
a smartie, too. Now he's sore arms, sore neck
sam lipsyte
only_one_from_6___
The weekend all the leaves fall.
Empty house as an index of possibility. Out by the private airport,
Sunday at dusk
ron silliman
a_trio_picked_from_7___
Rare the oils summoned / to a
woman's caress, / the tangled hair
cooper esteban
This grandmother used to harvest
tomatoes, which doesn't seem right, seems an utterly hopeless act,
a form of depravity
ginger knowlton
this air wants to come back /
is gaining momentum, grinding down
simon perchik
1_from_9___
in the photograph / the women's
faces have been covered / and their sexes exposed
megan burns
&_1_from_10___
In the light of this light, us
brothers, we raise back our hammers. We line up those rusted nails.
peter markus
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