Volume 2, Issue 6
Winter 2009

The Cover Art

Contents

Fiction

John Garcia 18 My Name
Scott Doyle 59 Fred
Aparna Sanyal 83 A Village Brahmin
Miguel de Unamuno
Tom Feeny (translator)
119 Frog Lovers, Frog Haters
Batracofilios Y Batracofodos
Richard Bentley 150 Overcoats
Meredith Dodson 180 Momentum of the Game

Poetry

Janet Smith 1 A Lesson in Oils
Joanne Lowery 3 The Beheaded
Biman Roy 5 Weapon Maker
Wendi Lee 7 Tattoo
B. Z. Niditch 8 Canetti's Ground
John Sibley Williams 9 Winter Sequence
Michael Carrino 11 Swallow Street
Heather Treseler 12 Portrait in the 14th Century
Derek Zobel 14 Learning Turner in the London National Gallery
Gregory Randall 16 Sundry Tercets
Richard Riche 17 Fly on a Leaf
Michael Carrino 37 Insatiable
John Peterson 38 Freedom Song
Richard Bunch 39 Canticle
Linda Swanberg 40 Wasps
K. E. Duffin 41 Granatellus Sallaei at Last
Dee LeRoy 42 Meditation
Richard Bailey 45 Bird Sculpture
Dean Kostos 46 A Caterpillar
Alan Britt 48 Dark Matter
Jason Mitchell 49 A Story About Letters
Christian Knoeller 51 Listening for Whitman
James Cushing 53 The Tamer Star
Rocco Lungariello 55 The Unpeeling
Molly Fisk 57 Forsythia
Miles Brugman 63 Five Instances of Time
Erica Goss 65  Stones
Matthew J. Spireng 67 Bull Elk, Yellowstone
K. E. Duffin 68 Okapi
Gay Baines 69 Messenger
Gay Baines 70 Like Any Other Day
Molly Fisk 71 Windfall
Jeannine Dobbs 73 Poetic Justice
Gregory Randall 75 Pastiche: Music from a Sometimes Life
Angie Macri 77 The Wreck Off the Mediterranean Coast
Angie Macri 79 Stars of Eridanus
Kateri Kosek 81 Potential Energy, August, 1933
Blair Beacom Deets 103 Sacred Madness
Blair Beacom Deets 107 Ocean City
Blair Beacom Deets 110 Reading Wallace Stevens
Blair Beacom Deets 112 Interrogating the Landscape
Blair Beacom Deets 114 Opal
Blair Beacom Deets 117 Dried Thistle
Therése Halshceid 129 Sanding the Wood
Alice Pero 130 Leaving Home
Susannah W. Simpson 132 Hallway, Ward 17
Connie Donovan 133 Ida Louise
Brandon Lewis 135 The Pursuit of Wild
Sharon Hashimoto 138 I Want to Ask, When Did Any Light Cease to Matter?
Richard Dinges, Jr. 139 Dry Leaves
Diana Woodcock 140 Nine Years Later, on International Earth Day
Paula Goldman 142 No More Arguments
Miranda Coffey 144 Madonna
Maryanne Hannan 146 A Cento Based on the Poems of Lady Mary Wroth
Merry Gangemi 148 Beltane: Advancing to Zero
Connie Donovan 149 Devotions of an Anfal Widow
A. E. Nugent 163 A New Year's Dream
K. H. Solomon 165 Scattered at Sea
Paul David Colgin 167 West of Somewhere
Edward Beatty 168 Ecology
Julie L. Moore 170 Liquid
Diana Woodcock 171 Hesitation
Dellana Diovisalvo 172 A Windy Day
Angie Macri 173 Rhyta
Kateri Kosek 174 Waking Bird
Randy Blythe 175 Bush Hogging the Bottom Pasture
Paul David Colgin 177 Under Windmills
Erica Goss 178 New Colors
Lisa Alexander Baron 179 Return

Non-Fiction

Ann Frank Wake 97 Featured Poet: Blair Beacom Deets