BY THE FOUNDING EDITOR Occasional Notes: A Revaluation of all Values 6
Neglected Help: Needing Freedom: Plath, Jeffers 168
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Associate Editors: Donna Spector, Aaron Stypes, Patti Sullivan, Peggy Trojan, Anthony Mohr, L.D. Zane
JULIE WAKEMAN-LINN A Rocket V-8 8
HOWARD R WOLF Second Time Around 17
MICHAEL FRYD Therapy 38
NAN LUNDEEN Margrethe’s Winter Coat 51
DAVID PLIMPTON Quasi-Tame Shrinking Felines vs.
Throwback Expanding Canines 61
SHAE M HALL Wash N Dry 74
RYAN M MOSER The Farmer’s Pond 97
JANICE E RODRÍGUEZ Best Served Cold 108
STEVEN SHEFFIELD COOKE Bait And Switch 136
NICOLE WALDNER Night Skies 163
PAMELA CARTER A Bipolar Child 87
KIT-BACON GRESSITT Coconut Boy 121
TERRY SANVILLE Old Don Quixotes 156
GANNON DANIELS My Mother’s Skin 12
Flak 12
ELIZABETH WEIR Master Craft 14
New Orleans Bronze 14
ALISON HICKS The IV Pole 15
LINDA FUCHS Pondering 16
RODGER LEGRAND Sleepwalking 29
NAOMI RUTH LOWINSKY To a Kinsman From Before the Divide 30
JUDITH JANOO The Hay Barn 32
Beaches of Normandy 33
Sparks 34
Take To The Streets, February 15, 2003 35
Alphabet 35
HOWARD WINN Newspaper Obituary Page 37
EVE POWERS Uprising, 1956 44
When Ella Died 45
The Children are Singing 46
GEORGE LONGENECKER View from a Bay Window 48
Everything Washes Away 49
GEORGE STALEY Walking 50
STEVE DENEHAN My Mother 56
Tire Swing 57
STEVEN PELCMAN My Mother’s Cupboard 58
WILLIAM SWARTS Grave Words: My Epitaph 60
DAMON MCLAUGHLIN This Hawk Pair Destroyed Its Own Nest 68
LESLIE G COHEN Sixty-Four 70
M T JAMIESON The Big Guy Swept The Dust 72
Analogue Cowboy, Outdoor Theater 73
BRIAN C FELDER Hard Knocks U 82
Nap Time 82
Partners in Crime 82
The Dream Lives Yet 83
CAMERON MORSE Poem Written During a Funeral Service 85
Purgatory 85
JOHN T HITCHNER Snow Upon Green 90
DOUGLAS COLLURA Inspiring the Troops 93
JAMI MILLER Relapse 94
79 94
Locked Up 95
JEFFREY ALFIER The Corner of Monmouth and Broad Streets 101
Summer Landscape: Gildford, Montana 101
Second Story 102
VICTORIA ANDERSON Spottings 104
JOAN PRESLEY Girls Gone Sober, Mondays @ Noon 105
The Whole Foods Equation 106
MARGUERITE GUZMAN BOUVARD The Light Inside and Outside 115
LAURA FALSETTI Let’s Assume This Doesn’t Work Out 116
RHEMA SAYERS Transient Magic 118
RONALD MORAN On a night two months ago 120
MATTHEW LANDRUM At the Kalahari Resort 124
RICHARD N BENTLEY Inland 125
RICHARD LUFTIG How Autumn Prevails 126
PATRICK THERON ERICKSON The 1968 Mexico City Olympics A Retrospective 128
Collateral Damage 129
MATTHEW MENDOZA Short Path To Ecstasy 131
STEPHEN R ROBERTS Senior Citizen Résumé 132
Nature with Mud Hens 132
PHILIP ST. CLAIR Astral Cigarettes 134
MICHAEL CERAOLO Free Speech Canto XXXIII 142
Free Speech Canto XXXIV 143
Free Speech Canto XXXV 145
MEREDITH HOLMES What is Zen? 148
Mixed Emotions 148
Election Journal November 9, 2016 149
SUELLEN WEDMORE Caravan 150
MITCHELL UNTCH Immigration 152
Encounter 153
Twin 154
RICHARD WIDERKEHR Luck and Sorrow, She Said 159
RUSS ALLISON LOAR I Knew a Young Man 161
Legions 161
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