By the Editor Incarceration 6
James Doyle Are You Kidding? Inside front cover, 166, and back cover
Cover art by Patti Sullivan
Associate Editors: Donna Spector, Kailen Nourse-Driscoll, Patti Sullivan, Anthony Mohr, L.D. Zane, Stacia Levy, Jeffrey Davis, Dana Stamps II
Jan Shoemaker Through the Trees 22
Paul C Dalmas Never Held a Basketball 37
Peter Breyer Fifty-Two Years Later 74
Tim Menees House Tour 134
Mike Cohen The Hand in the Glove 11
Tessa Smith McGovern For Better or for Worse 31
J F Connolly Bayonne 50
Robert Granader Curable 61
Elizabeth Standing Bear Holly Patterson 85
Martha K Davis Wild Kingdom 95
Hava Thompson Kohl-Riggs What’s Eggs Got to Do with It 103
Glen Weissenberger Stops along the Way 106
Lindsey Anderson Acadia 120
William Thompson The Book Finder 128
Phil Mershon White Church 141
Tamra Wilson Steve’s Ashes 154
Margaret Hermes The Off-Season 157
James Fowler Buddha Squirrels 7
The Twelve Labors of Hercules 7
Company Town 9
Stephen Boulhosa Team Colors 19
Rude Awakening 21
Meredith Davies Hadaway October: the Week in Review 29
Vigil 29
Steven Beauchamp Tybee Revisited 30
John Krumberger Spilled Milk 32
Arthur Ginsberg On a Perspective of Things 33
The Bones are Singing 34
Election 35
X-mas Heart-string 36
Zack Rogow Getting Personal 47
To the Person Who had Me Ticketed for Blocking His Driveway 48
Holly Day The Tree in Our Back Yard 49
Deborah Fleming Chemistry Poem 59
Prophet 60
Aaron Parker Live A Cide 61
Hiromi Yoshida TV Dinner 72
Jean Varda Drops of Mercy 73
Alexander Payne Morgan Bistro Savannah 79
Bus Station Prayer 80
Persistence 81
Ode to Blueberries 83
Brad G Garber Dash Naked 93
Great American 94
Will Walker Constitutional 101
David James Ars Poetica: Kroger’s on Grand River 102
Edward Rielly A Departure 105
Iain Macdonald Burn Your Journal 106
Steven Pelcman On the Tenth Anniversary of a
Husband’s Death 118
Neighbors 119
Susan Tollefson Alloy Prayer 127
W Luther Jett The Busboy 127
Elizabeth Weir Intermission at Lee Blessing’s,
“Going to St. Ives” 132
At San Francisco Airport 132
Elaine Cohen You Can’t Go Home Again 133
Michael Minassian Compassion’s Carriage 138
How to Write a Poem 139
John Grey Regarding my Time Spent in the Choir 140
Paula Yup Milk Bottle 152
Cinco de Mayo 153
Alison Stone Friends are Starting to do Stuff to their Faces 156
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