the current state of our marriage issue
december 2002
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Having run out of worthy conversation
long ago, the prospect of sign language is a conflict of interest
to the current state of our marriage
jonathan kessler
She’s writing the book
on recounts. Recantations, remainders, the last knob of the skeleton
whose hand she shakes
susan m. schultz
How to understand liquids from
sand what happened in the chain we are separated from each other
michael basinski
This clarity might include
what became of my body, or certain parts of a world made of worlds
in between
david mclendon
more so ever I do not never do
I very much ever sleep here
kathryn rantala
I keep having urges to send you
these strange pairs of found things I keep meaning to send to my
father. The stout Fire-King coffee cups in their pristine jadeite
splendor. The thirty-year-old Hercules-brand batteries, made by
Union Carbide
magdalen powers
A a new powerful spiral of the
arm$ race* who questioned the wisdom of proceeding with a missile
defense itself acknowledged it willn’t work system
alicia askenase
What is mastery? What is a dream
factory?
catherine daly
I was always hovering
around bookshelves. It made me feel prepared for conversation. I
couldn't remember her name. It was Jule-something. Julianne, Juliette,
Julee
kevin sampsell
sound a link to the past re
re recorded over a vinyl pastiche of the omni present future
ivan arguelles
One feather or the tip of a feather
hinting to be the color of God
tanja sofia krupa
Tanzan wrote sixty e-mails on the last day of
his life. Then he passed away. The e-mails read: I am departing
from this world. Yahoo!
mike
topp
String principle likely the
matter of what interests a sestina
chris pusateri
What was wrong with me, I concluded,
was that my ass was all fucked up. That's exactly what I told people.
I have a fucked-up ass
mark o'neil
ecstacy hole to ha/ppened there
there mission camou/flagence brakes of pivotin t and
jukka-pekka kervinen
Often, he dreamed of a woman, always the same
woman—dark hair, dark eyes, a loose white dress showing the
tops of her breasts. He desired her with an abandonment he did not
know when awake
norman lock
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