EDITORIAL COMMENT Occasional Notes: “Queer” is an Adjective inside back cover
Cover art: Brian Fuller
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, Jan Bowman, Joanne Durham
ISABEL BROME GADDIS Living in Gingerbread 10
JANET AMALIA WEINBERG The Cowboy and the Bitch 17
LESLIE G COHEN . . . And Don’t Take No for an Answer 34
RAYMOND FORTUNATO “And One” 57
SCOTT LAUDATI Can’t Die In Portland 70
MELINDA SMITH Something Happened on Floor 19 82
K E KARL The Red Door 94
THOMAS DECONNA Hidden Transgressions 105
TOBY TUCKER HECHT Annex 121
LORI TANSEY The Pool in Bethesda 138
ALA COVINGTON Red Firetruck 147
PHILIP GOLDBERG Jericho 174
C H ZHU American Dream 181
CHRISTINE MA-KELLAMS Lina 198
CONRAD BISHOP & ELIZABETH FULLER Margaret’s Fling 204
DARRY HALBROOKS Spaghettified 218
DONNA SPECTOR The Jesus Year 232
JULIE IANNONE Six Dollar Son 247
MARY BUNTEN The Beginning of Spring 257
ROBERT WALICKI Coming Soon 277
SARA YAROCH Dead, Dead, Dead 283
DENISE THOMPSON-SLAUGHTER A Small Brown Bird 8
HARVEY SILVERMAN Special Place 21
LESLIE G COHEN An Honorary Lutheran 47
TONY VICK Does A 51-Year LIFE Sentence Make Sense for Juveniles? 77
LANCE RYAN WARD Memories 115
REBECCA JUNG Pasteboard Houses 162
LEO CARDEZ CONVICT CHRONICLES: Cooking 269
BARBARA BERGMANN (she/her) “Queer” is an Adjective inside back cover
TRINITY R LANGBEIN A Name No Man Knows 9
CAROL BARRETT Rummage 11
Messengers 12
Dumbwaiter 13
Leaning into My Life 15
Live Trap 16
CLARA BURGHELEA The half-baked skin of the day 19
Girl Husks 21
NORBERT HIRSCHHORN Against Solitude 24
RICARDO MORAN That Ford Escort 32
Paper Twitter 33
LESLIE G COHEN Twelve isn’t a Lot…Or is it? 45
WILL CORDEIRO Spiderweb 55
SEAN FERRIER-WATSON A Silent Poet 56
CHERYL BLOCK Shapes of the morning 66
DONNA EMERSON Virginia and Juliet
The Changing Season 68
Thank You My Sister 69
Good Night Virginia 70
ELIZABETH HILL A Latin Beat 75
LYDIA DISTEFANO THIEL The Dog and Devil’s Rock, 1954 76
DUANE ANDERSON Mr. Regular 81
MADELINE WISE Wildfire 81
RAN DIEGO RUSSELL The Safe Side 91
CARLO MORRISSEY A Week Before Christmas 92
The Kid, 1965 93
CARLA SARETT “I’ve never seen an ugly bridge” 101
Gainsborough decides to paint his daughters 102
AMY L FAIR The Flammability of Loss 103
Late Husband 103
What We Cannot Hold 104
ANTHONY BOTTI Self-Portrait in November 113
January Blizzard 114
BRIAN ED BOIES Bodega Bay 1998 114
SHARON SCHOLL Choosing Forever 116
The Word of the Mists 117
RAY CORVI I’ve Been Reading 118
ROB COOK How We Met 131
Dot 133
Meltdown 134
Waxwing 135
NOLO SEGUNDO The Walking Wounded 137
SANDRA SALINAS NEWTON A Baseball Mitt 143
No Word 143
Hungarian Rhapsody 144
Nocturne No. 3: Little by Little 145
ARTHUR GINSBERG Maple Leaves 146
BRIAN K HAUSFELD Mother Gaia 159
ANTONIS BALASOPOULOS A Dream 160.
BARBARA SCHWEITZER The Death of a Language 161
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CHUCK SALMONS Surviving the Eremocine 167
Louie 169
I give you this ring 169
Gambit 170
How to be Grateful 171
BUFF WHITMAN-BRADLEY After a long pause 173
JENNIFER LAGIER Pseudo Son 178
Nene Invasion 179
She Swims Laps in the Thunderstorm 179
CHARLENE NEELY Apple Jelly Time 180
EDWIN ROMOND At Woolworths 194
Trauma and Drama in the A&P Cereal Aisle 195
Alamo 195
CHARLES SPRINGER Garage Man 196
DOROTHY JOHNSON-LAIRD Amazing Spirit 196
SUZANNE SCHOENFELT The Wake-Up on Larkin 201
Seminar at the Presidio 202
JAMES T STEMMLE Screed 203
GAIL NIELSEN Pushing Cloud 212
A Given 213
JOYCE MEYERS Cosmic Alphabet 213
Reflections 214
Emeralds and Ashes 216
Virtuoso 217
MARGARET B INGRAHAM Beneath Myth’s Surface 227
JANE COSTAIN Inside Out 229
Handiwork 230
Old Lady Stack 231
GENE GOLDFARB The L.B. Conspiracy 243
For Thistles 244
LAUREL BENJAMIN A Man Who is Not My Father 244
Missing in the Canyon 246
GEORGE FREEK What One Does 255
On a Painting by Ku K’Ai Chih 255
On my 60th Birthday 256
Uneasy Night 256
NOREEN OESTERLEIN The Promise 257
GERARD SARNAT 7% (Actually 5%) Solution 266
GLENN INGERSOLL The Gift Horse 267
Father 268
Using your thumbnail, sever the stem of a honeysuckle 269
GREY HELD Interviewing Myself While Driving to the Massachusetts
Correctional Institute, Concord 275
JEFFREY ALFIER The Arcade 276
LAURA SWEENEY Last Night of Dinner at the Writers
in Common Conference 279
JOAN E BAUER Wanton Acts of Generosity and Kindness 280
Remembering Zappa 281
JOHN S EUSTIS Ed McMahon 285
One Little Cough 286
My Lost Treasure 286
HADLEY HURY This Much 288
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