River Oak Review

Volume 2, Issue 1
Fall 2004

Contents

Fiction

Pat MacEnulty
3
The Language of Sharks
Boz Bowles
42
Private
Jeannie Galeazzi
64
The Reluctant Sugar Daddy
Dex Westrum
77
The First Life of Defense

Non-Fiction

Siân Griffiths

26
Why I'm Not Pretty
Judy Kirscht
90
Staff Field, 1943

Poetry

Joel Long
1
Prelude 19
Lizbeth Keiley
19
Desert of the Child
James Doyle
24
Sahara
Ryan G. Van Cleave
34
This Poem, Too, Is Haunted
Robert Bense
36
Pecan Groves at Modoc
Michael Trammell
38
Sueño y Hombre en la Carretera a Madrid
Robert Bense
40
Logging Black Walnuts
Joel Long
45
Prelude 23
Ryan G. Van Cleave
63
Ophelia, Dreaming of Hamlet Again
Robert Bense
72
Landscape with Hazelnuts
Natasha Marin
73
Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
James Doyle
75
Rhino
Gaylord Brewer
86
Apologia for Wordiness
Michael Trammell
88
The Possibilities of Mulberries on the Reincarnation of Berryman
Jim Elledge
98
As We Approach the Days of Awe

Featured Writer: Wendy Bishop

Dean Newman
47
Introduction
Wendy Bishop
50
Everything

52
My Children Help Me Cut My Hair

54
In Your Childhood Bedroom

58
Inside Out

61
Valentines: A Pantoum Using Lines From My Other Poems

62
The Peace in Peace: An Epithalemion


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