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From the Editors

5

Spencer

Reece

Winter Scene

7

Spencer

Reece

Past One O’Clock

8

E.M.

Schorb

Before the Sermon

9

Charles

Freeland

The Death of Irony

10

David

Staudt

Running Ultra Quiet

14

Charles

Rafferty

The Man Without Passion Arrives at the Grand Canyon

15

Charles

Rafferty

The Man Whose Luck Is Changing

16

Sean

Brown

The Black Cistern

17

Katrina

Roberts

The Ruffled Edge

25

Ellen

Wehle

Elation

27

Anthony

Madrid

Bagatelle

28

Joan

Cusack Handler

The Break

29

Joan

Cusack Handler

Mess

31

David

Athey

He Is Tired of Self-Portraits of Artists, Pouting

32

   

Poetry Contest Winners

33

Katrina

Roberts

Sestina About Reciprocity

34

Charles

Rafferty

Romance

37

Susan

Cavanaugh

Migration

39

Susan

Cavanaugh

What the Gypsy Won’t Tell You

41

Louis

McKee

Buk-Screaming Through the Sixties

43

Rebecca

Baggett

A Poem for Activist Insomniacs

47

Ernie

Hilbert

Two-part Invention No. 4

49

David

Jauss

The Year Nobody Died

51

Robert

Gregory

A Man in Black Shoes Walking Slowly Because His Case Is Heavy

53

Faulkner

Fox

Cup of Caution

54

Kristen

Burkholder

4th Week

55

Simon

Perchik

Three Poems

56

Lyn

Lifshin

The Split Maple Buckles Near Porter Field

59

David

Swerdlow

Morning Prayers

61

Hugh

Fox

Suede and Velour

62

Daniel

Lusk

And Then One Day

66

Louis Daniel

Brodsky

November Planting

67

Art

Beck

Proverbs

68

William

Varner

Craig

69

Charlene

Fix

Sunday Ducks

71

Laura

Sims

Restless Night

72

Lisa

Coffman

For Najeema, 6, Who Admitted To Hitting Renee

73

Carroll

Susco

Unbalanced Load

74

Jon

Volkmer

Lines on a New Chivalry

83

Maria

Goodman

If Fog

85

Maria

Goodman

Fishermen at Night

86

Jay

Griswold

Deathwatch on the Potomac

87

Jim

Walker

Lounge Acts

89

Jim

Walker

Firetruck

91

   

Fiction Contest Winners

93

Lisa

Borders

Peace

94

D.S.

Sulaitis

The Nest

104

Lynne

Butler Oaks

One, Two, Many Times

108

Michele

Wade

Play Me Accordion Paper Dolls

109

Jean-Marc

Sens

Lament of the Icecream Man in the Snow

110

Vivian

Shipley

Unnatural

111

William

Minor

from Our Peasant Love

113

   

Contributors’ Note

114

Kathy

Volk Miller

Editor

 

Brian

Brown

Editor

 

Marion

Wrenn

Editor

 

Cynthia

Vena

Associate Editor

 

Colin

Wolfe

Associate Editor

 

Sharron

Kueny

Associate Editor

 

Kevin B.

DiNovis

Associate Editor

 

Jerry

Hagins

Production