BY THE FOUNDING EDITOR Occasional Notes: Where We Are 6
Neglected Help: Another Revaluation of all Values 153
Cover: quilt by Ann Grigsby Misiolek
Associate Editors: Donna Spector, James De Monte, Kailen Nourse, Aaron Stypes, Patti Sullivan, Anthony Mohr
JACK ANDERSON The Melancholy of a Brown Paper Bag 9
ANTHONY MAIZE Bosco Jones 25
BARBARA BAER Voting Dark 49
MOLLY GILLCRIST Caught 58
DAVID PRATT Look What We Have to Work With 74
BRUCE KAMEI Homey 82
DAVID GOLDSTEIN Why a Crazy Person Walks in
and Starts Shooting 99
VALERIE STAUFFER Twists and Turns 116
GAY BAINES Pepperlegs 124
RICK GEORGE A Jailer in his Cell 135
BETTY J. SAYLES The “80” 16
PHILIP R HARRISON The Life and Times of a
Male Childminder 20
JOHN BALLANTINE The Wheel Turns 66
CHRISTINE HOLMSTROM Why Must Jarvis Masters Die? 110
CYNDY MUSCATEL The Second Diagnosis 142
DANA STAMPS, II Highbrow Piano 11
On the Balcony 12
King 13
Just Zen Time 14
In Lucifer We Trust 15
CLS FERGUSON The Morning After in Orlando 18
One Summer All of the Dishers Were Deported 19
TIM GAVIN Dominoes 24
RICHARD LUFTIG How to Write a Poem 47
DENNIS CASWELL New York Movie 57
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY So Long Bernie Sanders: Dispatch
from Where the Clouds Leave Off 61
Nell Campbell’s Photograph: Fidel Billboard, 2002 63
MATTHEW J. SPIRENG Neighbors 69
Peach Tree, September 70
When I Was a Boy 71
Stairs 72
In Winter 73
KEVIN MCCOY borrowed dog 81
LISA J. CALORO Vision 98
MARK TRECHOCK Dream Watch 108
Hard Work 109
MADELYN CAMRUD Water Familiar 114
Home after the Walk 115
JOHN GREY Travails of the Trailer Park 122
LOWELL JAEGER Pumping Gas 134
JOAN EDDY Most Loyal Wounds 139
Gray Matter 140
Long-lined Lily 141
JEFF NESHEIM Swept Away 146
At Work 147
The Details Are Available 149
The Mechanics of Aerodynamics 151
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