BY THE EDITOR What the Future Holds 6
Cover photos by Steven Pelcman
Associate Editors: Donna Spector, Kailen Nourse-Driscoll, Patti Sullivan, Anthony Mohr, L.D. Zane, Stacia Levy
BILL DEARMOND The Emperor’s New Brain 7
RONNA WINEBERG Kaleidoscope 13
G DAVID SCHWARTZ Rabbi B and I Played Tennis
(and Racquetball) 36
CAROL ROAN The Last of the Warners 38
ALAN M FLEISHMAN Bygones 57
ROSALIA SCALIA Daddy’s Shoes 67
FABIYAS M V Pachan’s Day 77
ANTHONY MAIZE Patty and Gert 86
GEORGE AUGUST MEIER Dandelions for Sarah 96
LAURO PALOMBA The Sultan’s Tent 107
STACIA LEVY The Real Me 122
CHRISTINE TERP MADSEN The Back of the Plane 143
GWEN NAMAINGA JONES Kwata Chamba (Hold Your Heart) 163
JANET AMALIA WEINBERG & MARGARET KARMAZIN
The Olding Challenge 175
MARK HALPERN Takeda-sensei, the Enemy 181
NICOLE WALDNER Night Skies 207
THE GREEN NEW DEAL Inside front cover, 229,230, inside back cover
HARVEY SILVERMAN Yin and Yang 10
REBECCA JUNG Home Leave 28
DANA STAMPS II Art Collecting, a Memoir 71
JAMES RYAN Greeting Ike 80
ORIT YERET Sidewalk Stories 117
STEPHEN PARK Bobby Joe has a Bad Day 129
J O HASELHOEF Lying in Bed 158
NIKKI HAGGAN “A Weight Off My Chest” 172
FLORENCE LEVINE ‘Grandma?’ 188
VALERIE L. KINSEY Grandmother’s Gifts 193
BOB CHIKOS Summer of ’84 199
MARY SCHMITT The Hollow Places 9
MATTHEW FEENEY Sun Shower 12
The Right to Write 12
RONALD K BURKE Jazz Junkies of the Fifties 24
THOMAS PIEKARSKI Land’s End 25
ALITA PIRKOPF Thoughts, Some of Them Deep 34
Remembering Gregor Samsa 35
SHAWNA ERVIN Birthmom 37
JESSE MILLNER The Lewis Place 50
Broken World 52
Beer Aisle Meditation 53
This Morning May 22nd, 2017 55
I hate Chrysler Sebrings, 56
MARTIN WILLITTS JR Coming Home, Soon 66
DAVID A HECKER Craftsman 68
Summer Fallow 69
Two Brothers 70
SHARON SCHOLL Thoughts and Prayers 76
Chemo-Brain 76
MARC KAMINSKY A Place Apart: A Tent in the Desert 79
A Coat in the Closet 79
MARCUS BENJAMIN RAY BRADLEY Buckled 83
Flu Year 84
Daughters 85
ADRIA KLINGER Cancer Stage 4 93
Not 94
Grief 94
Still Moving 95
EMILY WALL Tommy’s Birth 103
Catching Babies: Haiku 105
DANA ROBBINS Dear Mr. Klimt: 116
BRAD G GARBER Birdfeeder 121
Family Interests 122
HELEN TZAGOLOFF The Prince Cannot Find Cinderella
without Her Shoe 126
Kissproof 127
MARGUERITE GUZMAN BOUVARD Danny Rodriguez 128
WILLIAM GREENWAY Intruders 142
Migraine 143
KAREN MACEIRA Bookmobile 153
Spring 155
Salvation 156
Miss Perret 157
Late Art 157
MICHAEL ESTABROOK From Nothing 160
Batteries 160
Kidney 161
Watch only movement. What a person
does is what a person means. 161
At The End 162
CHRISTY WISE Cardboard Sliding 171
CHARLES RAMMELKAMP In the Clearing Stands a Boxer 174
MILTON J BATES Summer of ’63 180
DIANA PINCKNEY Hummingbirds and Wine 187
SCOTT RUESCHER The Last Dance 189
The Sign 191
RON DRUMMOND The Dancing Man 197
Attributions 198
MYRA WARD Before the Visitors, at the Chapel 204
ANNA CITRINO Watering the Grape Vine 204
Applauding for Vegetables 205
Lettuce 206
Desert Compost 206
KELLY SLIVKA What You Cannot Do 218
REED VENRICK The Tree that Brings me Home 219
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