Evening Street Review NUMBER 35, Autumn 2022

MATTHEW FEENEY Scared     inside front cover

SUZANNE FREEMAN Tunnel Vision     18

My New Ringtone    19
Tithonia (Torch)      20

LAURA KING Spiraled      26
DAVE MORRISON The Day After Mother’s Day     28

Best Time   29

JR THELIN The Dodgers in Six   38

Speed Reading in the U.S.A. (1960)   38
A Dance of Summer (1959)  39

DENNIS ROSS Origin Story   43

Whirlpool   44

KAY BOSG  RAAF Marcia’s Dream of Majestic Weeping Willows      46

Better Than Ice Cream   47
Mea Culpa in Second Grade   48
She Was the One   49

VIRGINIA SMITH Welsh Mythology   53
PAULA YUP From his Garden   55
CAROL HAMILTON Red Hands   66

Caravaggio from Below   66
“Don’t Disturb the Birds”   67

DONNA WEAVER High Yellow   68

Meghan with an H   69
Pepperidge Farm Ain’t No Place   70

CAROLYN ADAMS Twelve Moons (Fourth Quarter)   82

If my Eyes Were Wrong   83
Cassini Dances with Saturn   84
Charon Checks Out   85
Heliosphere   86
From Earth to Oumuamua   87

MELISSA BOROWICZ BETRUS Fledglings   99

Plea to the Humpback Whale   100

MARYFRANCES WAGNER Mushroom Squad   101

The Deer   101

KATHRYN SADAKIERSKI Joe’s   108
SHARON SCHOLL Touch and Go   110

 

 

JENNY PATTON Remdesivir   114

GameStop   115

MARTIN MCGOWAN Compost   117
AKIVA ISRAEL The Joke’s on You   120

Hermaphrodite’s Fable   121

SANDEEP KUMAR MISHRA Pebbles   122
MICHAEL S GLASER In the Hospital   123

7th Grade   124

MICHAEL DARCHER Elegy for a Friend Not Yet Dead   139
CHARLES RAMMELKAMP The Cover-Up   143
DANA ROBBINS Mammography   145
PHIL FLOTT Steve’s House   158
DANA STAMPS II Not Alone   159

Trumpeting Regrets   160

ANTHONY BOTTI Photograph in Changing Light   166
BRAY MCDONALD Skirting the Emotive Edges of Reality   167
CAMERON DEAN GIBSON Don’t Drink the Mud Puddles

of DePue, IL   170

You Can’t Tell a Venomous Snake by the Way it Swims   171

NANCY L DAVIS Evening Prayers   172

Hospital   173

MARY K LINDBERG Dance of Atoms   186
CORINNE GUICHARD Jacqueline   187
JEAN VARDA I Found My Name in a Poem   200

Tundra Swan   201
Now Go the Whales   202

CAMERON MORSE The Rite   203
JBMULLIGAN know the enemy   215
ALINDA DICKINSON WASNER And There Is Eternity   217

Border Crossing: Who We Used to Be   218

JOHN DELANEY Paperbacks   222
RAND CARDWELL Transgressions of the Soul   223

Every Day Since   224

MARGUERITE GUZMAN BOUVARD The Histories We Carry   227
DANIEL FITZPATRICK The Student Recalls the Philosopher   228
E MARTIN PEDERSEN Not There Yet   243
STEVE DEUTSCH Strondes   256

Brothers   257 Steven Deutch