BY THE FOUNDING EDITOR Occasional Notes: A Mind of Her Own, Karen Horney 6
Neglected Help: Unsafe abortions are increasing in Africa 200
DARRYL HALBROOKS Missile Carrier 16
MARTY CARLOCK Song for the Day Moon 26
JAMES GOTTESMAN What’s Fair is Fair 34
TAMAR ANOLIC Lone Marshal 46
ADAM B COHEN It’s a Date 84
MARION IMMERMAN Mercy 93
TERRY SANVILLE Vale of Tears 105
JACK MILLEA Free 156
KATHLEEN GLASSBURN Russell’s Rooms 175
IRENE MEKLIN The Dress 185
NICOLE WALDNER Night Skies 190
JULIAN MARKELS Departing from Time in Old Age at the
Charcoal Grill 9
K W CLIFTON We’re Better Than Using Labels 59
SHIV DUTTA Homecoming 62
STEPHEN PARK Short Stay 114
DAVID ALAN GOLDSTEIN I Went to Wharton with The Donald 122
A R BENDER Glory 129
BETINNA HANSEN If You’re Going to Rap, Rap About Me 139
NIKKI HAGGAN “Selling Myself Short” 152
DAVID ALAN GOLDSTEIN The Disconnect 168
MARK BELAIR River and Leaves Inside front cover
MICHAEL CASEY capitalism 15
DAN SIEG The Penultimate Pew 24
Tuesday Morning 25
DONNA REIS Again II 33
CHARLIE BRICE American 44
The Smell of Home in Wyoming 45
MARK THALMAN Seventh Grade 60
MICHAEL SALCMAN The Good Tourist 83
MATT NAGIN Down for the Count 91
BRIAN FANELLI By the Banks of the Lackawanna River 92
GREG MOGLIA A Stranger’s Touch 100
Streamlined 100
Dignity 101
Painting 102
What to Wear? 103
RONALD J PELIAS January 20, 2017 104
PHILIP L BODDY JR Deliciously Wicked Veronica Lake 110
I Thought I’d Drop By 111
LAURIE LESSEN REICHE In my Mother’s Kitchen 113
JEANNINE STEVENS Piñon 119
CATHERINE WALD Twisted 120
LYNN HOGGARD Getting Schooled 125
ANNE BOWER Plague 126
Blind Date with a Funeral Director, 1995 127
Dirty Clothes 127
CATHERINE R CRYAN Remnants for the Scrap-Bag 136
Clavis Aurea 137
CECIL MORRIS Staining the Fence 149
My Son on Crutches 149
Mason Almost Grown 150
For a Little Sister on Her Wedding Day 151
J L L KROLL Stone Poem 154
The RV Show 155
MARY PACIFICO CURTIS 45 at the One Yard Line 167
KEVIN J. MCDANIEL Whiffle Ball 169
American Bittern in a Hurricane 170
MICHAEL WALLS March 1, 1954—The Castle Bravo Test—
Bikini Atoll 172
A Ten Dollar Bill 173
SARAH BROWN WEITZMAN Newspaper Advice Columnist
Replies to Mother Goose 184
MATTHEW J SPIRENG Waking at 5 A.M. 186
The Gift 186
The Toad on the Porch 187
Happy Birthday 187
Full Moon, Late December 188
Generations 189
KADARON SLEDGE Tissue 201
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