EDITORIAL COMMENT Occasional Notes: JOHNNY L WOOTEN Non-Traditional Morality 6
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Associate Editors: Donna Spector, Kailen Nourse-Driscoll, Patti Sullivan, Anthony Mohr, L.D. Zane, Stacia Levy, Jeffrey Davis, Clela Reed, Matthew Mendoza, Matthew Spireng, Ace Boggess, Kristin Laurel
MARLENE S MOLINOFF The Big Idea 10
ARTHUR DAVIS Time Is All I Need 23
J SALER DREES The Levels of Suffering 28
JONATHAN FERRINI Brown Shoe 44
JANE SNYDER Lunch 48
DIANE LEFER What Did You Bring Me? 51
WALTER B LEVIS Recommended with Enthusiasm 76
LENNY LEVINE To Your Hurt’s Desire 93
TARA MENON The Waheedas of Syria 111
LAWRENCE F FARRAR Only the Cicadas Will Cry 121
PATRICK JOHN FLOOD The Banshee 137
MARY NEWTON A Requiem for Agnes Weems 151
RILEY SIMMONS Soul Searching 160
KENNETH M KAPP Three Etudes 164
RICHARD C RUTHERFORD From the Window Box 169
DANA STAMPS II Mercenary Poet, a Memoir 39
JUDITH FORD The Mountains are Home 66
GREG VARNER A Beautiful Woman 83
RYAN M MOSER How to Spin Straw into Gold 133
MARCELLO GIBBS Isolated from the real World inside front cover
JAMES ADAMS Bodyguard 21
Rice Water 21
PAULA YUP My Friend’s Book 27
Once upon a Time 27
ANN BRACKEN Paint Chips of Memory 38
STEPHEN J KUDLESS Stress Test 43
J T WHITEHEAD Blue Eyes 46
January 12, 2019—another day 47
VINCENT J TOMEO High Tea with My Dog Grandma 50
AL MAGINNES America 65
JOAN MAZZA Enumerator 75
MILT MACHÁLEK Gentle Gestures 83
RICHARD WEAVER A fish momentarily considers
a shining object 92
MICHAEL SALCMAN Mortality’s First Tingle 101
Cordon Sanitaire 101
The Hours 102
ROBIN GREENE Failing the Kindness Test 118
Goodbye 119
Salt and Sand 120
BRAD G GARBER Nacho 132
ROBERT ROTHMAN November 137
RICHARD LEVINE This is Not About You Not Being
Afraid to Die 149
The Limits of Science 150
Allegory 150
MARGUERITE BOUVARD The Last Word 159
Perspectives 160
REBECCA BAGGETT In Germany, White Swans 162
Guilt 163
JOEL SAVISHINSKY Summertime Blues 167
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