Kate Gray & Brad Stiles	Editors' Note
ESSAYS
Mark Spitzer	Gitting Myself a Garfish
Kevin Stein	The Hammer
FICTION
Tim Schell	The Dancing Gorilla
Henry Alley	Afternoons with Klaatu
Susan Thomas	Among Angelic Orders
Laura Rogerson Moore	Gall
Elizabeth Wetmore	Where are you from?
Joe Hill	The Widow's Breakfast
Peter Chilson	Disturbance Loving Species
Chris Fink	Horseface Cunningham Breaks His Maiden
Jarret Keene	The Texan
Lionel de Maine	Floppies
POETRY
Jeff Knorr	Steelhead Fishing Under Diving Stars
	Arriving at the Shore
	At the Sullivan Ranch, Returning Home
Fritz Ward	Studio 6B
Jayson Iwen	Practice
Cheryl Dumesnil	Bernal Heights
Elizabeth Thelen	Requiem
Paulann Petersen	The Same Worlds Within You as Without
	A Bride of the World
Tom Sheehan	Before Fishing, #10 Can
Kathleen Walsh Spencer	A Lapse in Judgment
	Memorizing Mother on the 17th Green
David Salner	My Past
	Big Al's Wife
Kay Grindland	Things Fall
Ann Silsbee	Old Willa Speaks Out
Derek Sheffield	The Saxophone
Loren Graham	Homeopathy
David Filer	Old Apples
Diane Hueter	Icicles
Beverly Froehlich	Lucky You
Jess Burnquist	Postpartum
	Listening
Charles Harper Webb	One More Reason Why I Won't Be Canonized
Virgil Suárez	Vandal's Moon
Jim Daniels	The Taste
Matthew Jehiel Dickman	Apology and Two Souls
Sheryl L. Nelms	Indian Summer in Bowie, Texas
Tricia Yost	Midwestern Belief
Nuno Júdice	Antropologia
Alexis Levitin, trans.	Anthropology
Shane Seely	West Nile
Eileen Hennessy	Death of a Firefighter
Linda Bamber	The Tower
Linda Avila	I Could Not Tell
Leslie J. Brett	Moon Lingering
Susan Erickson	All Things Lesser
	The Wing Bone of a Crane

Spring/Summer 2002
Volume VI, Issue 1

Cover image by
Baba Wagué Diakité
"Entering Civilization" (1997)
handbuilt earthenware,
24" h x 16½" dia.
Photo by: Dale Montgomery