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Evening Street Review, NUMBER 16, Spring 2017

Issue: Number 16, Spring 2017

Contents

By the Advisory Editor Occasional Notes: Memorial    6

Neglected Help: Fresh Air 174

Cover: Patti Sullivan “Animal Kingdom”

Associate Editors: Donna Spector, James De Monte, Kailen Nourse, Aaron Stypes

Contributors: 180

Fiction

JAMES R. KINCAID Good Humor Man 12

RONDA MUIR Bears 20

ABBY LIPSCOMB Benchmarks 31

CATHERINE PARILLA Evidence 48

OLAF KRONEMAN The Detroit Veteran’s Hospital 63

OONAGH C. DOHERTY East Lothian 83

JOY MURRAY Blue Willow 91

L.D. ZANE Benjamin Stahlman, Scholar 102

LINDA SCOTTO A Bit More Broken 130

DANA KOBERNICK The Sweetness of Pears 138

DONALD MCMANN In Sickness and in Health 160

Nonfiction

MARC FRAZIER Mercy 74

JEAN E. VERTHEIN Trauma or Turbulence: 9/11 WTC Millennial Sky 115

Poetry

 

WILL WALKER Not What I Want to Hear 18

 Out with the Old 19

HOWARD WINN Writing the Christmas Letter 45

 Spring 46

 Obit in the Local Newspaper 47

ROBERT BRIAN MULDER It Will Be 56

 Waiting 60

GRIFF FOXLEY Grief of all Grievances 80

 Saturday 82

LIANNE SPIDEL Sympathy 89

 Marriage Counseling 90

 

ROBERT RICE The Letters We No Longer Send 99

 How We Look for Meaning in Such  Stillness, in Such Light 101

YVONNE HIGGINS LEACH Mass Grave Outside  Skibbereen, Ireland 112

The Famine Exhibit in Skibbereen,  Ireland 114

HOLLY DAY The Nest 127

 Cowboy Boot Clocks 128

 Clover Weevil 129

LEE FIRESTONE DUNNE Misericordia 133

 First Birth 135

MELANIE HOLMES Separation 155

 A Date in Time 157

 Mothers Rings 159

VICTOR ALTSHUL Sweet Verse 172

 

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