Preface
Acknowledgements
 
Margaret Almon
The Suit of Women
On Renoir’s Sleeping Girl with a Cat
 
Juan Amador
It Is Better in the Train Station
 
Richard Aston
Using the Tools of My Ancestors
 
Elizabeth Balise
Two College Students
 
Karen Blomain
Recorded History
 
Thomas Kielty Blomain
The Wrecking Ball Visits Lackawanna Avenue
Asterisk (* Apologia ad Infinitum)
An Old Woman’s Ears in Temple
 
Victoria Torres Cays
Dia de Todos los Santos (All Saints Day)
 
Nancy W. Comstock
Dissolution
 
Michael Czarnecki
Ten Minutes of a Day
 
Craig Czury
To My Readers
Poor Death
Gravity
Doctor
 
Nancy K. Deisroth
Chauncey’s Roses
Blackberries
 
Michael Downend
The Father Box
Instructions for an Eclipse of the Sun
Eliot’s Shadow
 
Michael Edmunds
Straight Ahead
 
David Eliott
The Time Is Right
So Much Life
After the Party
All Night Haiku
 
Lynn Emanuel
Big Black Car
Blonde Bombshell
Domestic Violence
 
Ray Emanuel
[Since you left]
 
Sherry Fairchok
The Johnstown Flood
 
Sascha Feinstein
Song for My Father
 
Paul A. Ferraro
In His Garden
 
Paual Gannon
Fiction
Common Prayer
 
Gerard Grealish
The Glass Eye
The Falcon Club
The Hug
 
JoAnne Growney
Sharp Angles of Light
Call Me Ramona
 
Suzanne Harper
Boots
Auction
 
Michael Heller
One Day, What You Said to Yourself
Stanzas Without Ozymandias
Vocational Training
 
William Heyen
Spring Poem Roethke Saginaw 2002
Horns
Words
 
Jennifer Hil-Kaucher
The Modernization of Jennifer
Surface Tension
Manual Alphabet
 
Barbara Hoffman
Lot 43
My Red-Winged Blackbird
 
Jane Julius Honchell
False Spring
 
Jesse Stormont Hunter
Lightstream Passage
 
Susan R. Ide
Transitory
Our Ancestral Gatherer Sends Endorphins
Cutting Edge
 
Susan Luckstone Jaffer
To My Own
Prerequisite
Forecast
 
Kerry Shawn Keys
Empirical Atlantic Countdown
Korespawndance
 
Thomas Lux
The Swimming Pool
Wife Hits Moose
 
Rick Madigan
Coleman Hawkins
Blue in Green
 
Maggie Martin
Old Women’s Shoes
Duende
 
Irina Mashinskaya
So I Stood By and Watched
 
John E. McGuigan
Late Light Edge of Women
 
Bernie McGurl
Sonoma
 
D. Brett McHale
Penance for Acts Yet Uncommitted
 
Loretta A. Mestishen
Peeling
The Night I Killed Robert Bly
 
Robert Morgan
Nail Bag
Moving the Bees
Elmer’s Seat
 
Toby Olson
Feather
 
Carolyn W. Page
By the Glenwood
 
Anthony Petrosky
All of This (sections 2 and 4)
 
Marilyn Bogusch Pryle
Birth at the Orphanage of the ARtisanado de Nazareth, Mexico City
A Blind Man Tours the Musee Rodin
 
Jennifer Purvis
Rain Writing
Falling Stone
 
Brian Quinn
Bass Notes
Blood Rites
 
Charlotte Ravaioli
Pentimento
 
David Ray
In the San Diego Airport
 
Len Roberts
The Moment
The List of Most Difficult Words
 
Ann LaBar Russek
Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
 
Jan Selving
Offerings
 
Rondo Semian
Templo de Mars Tulum
 
Annete Basalyga Sloan
How Love Lasts
Garland
 
Gilbert Sorrentino
Calafawnya
 
Brent Spencer
Boy Raised by Wolves
Fishermen at Mori Point
 
Michael Steffen
"Fish or Cut Bait"
If We Were Trees
 
Lamont B. Steptoe
Gumbo, Goodoo, Blues and Woe
 
Sherry S. Strain
Smokescreen
 
Mervyn Taylor
Going Home
A Betting Man
 
Scott E. Thomas
Two Photographs of Mike Rieder
(The Watch Repairman)
Dictionary in the Rain
"Frank Tate 1935"
 
Madeline Tiger
Mercy
Chicago
 
J.C. Todd
Far Afield
Unless Blue
 
Dennis Toomey
Infatuation II
 
Dan Waber
Second Night at Alta
 
Roy Zarucchi
Harry’s Poem
 
Claudia Zehner
Identify
 
Contributors
Credits