Editor’s Note
Poetry
MICHAEL COLLIER The Raccoon / The Secretary / The French Horn / The Water Dream
JAMES HARMS Wherever You Hang Your Head / Mariner Without a Moon
ROBERT CORDING Washing the Body
GEORGE BILGERE Mastodon / Big Bang / Laundromat
RICHARD GILLMAN Notes for my Mother’s Biographer
JEFF FRIEDMAN The Names of Things
JANNA KING Boy, Thirteen
CLARE ROSSINI Nightmare
RICIA GORDON Dragonflies
DAVID BAKER Missionary Position
CAROL FROST Desire / Shame / Nothing
BARBARA MOORE The Flame Tree / The Big School / The Room, The Crows
STEPHEN DUNN At the School for the Deaf
ANNE EDWARDS Insufficient Heart
JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL The Kindness of Strangers
Fiction
JENNIFER C CORNELL Undertow
CORNELIA NIXON The Women Come and Go
RALPH SNEEDEN Mud Flats
PHILIP F. DEAVER Forty Martyrs
Essays
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Elements of Love: Fire
T. ALAN BROUGHTON Some Notes on the Art of Lying
DAVID GUY Experiences of the Void
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PREFACE
SARAH J. SMITH Turtle Hunting with Black
KRISTINA KRUSE Remaining a Soldier
JOSEPHINE REDLIN The Passing
LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Pearl Gathering
KEN GILLAM George Washington Goes Down at the Help-ee Self-ee Laundromat
Reviews
RICHARD KATROVAS Culling the Horrors
DAVID R. SLAVITT The Comedian as the Letter C Strikes Again
CHARD DENIORD In the Divide: Skeptic Master, Stung Pilgrim
ALLEN SHEPHERD Never the Same Again
GHITA ORTH Rich in Discipline
RALPH SNEEDEN The Large World Everywhere
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ART: Jeff Kaufman