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Cover photos: Front cover, Barbara Bergmann, Lake Merritt
Back cover: Andrena Zawinski, Waterfall, Golden Gate Park, SF
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, Maple Davis
MONICA L BELLON-HARN Hurricane Laura 8
JOE BAUMANN Holey Moley 18
VIVIAN LAWRY Running on about Aunt Genevieve 29
MARK RUSSO A Special Bridge 97
LESLIE G COHEN Medicine’s Last Rites 57
ROB ARMSTRONG Cul-de-Sac Séance 64
TIMOTHY REILLY Old Light 71
MEIKA MACRAE The Dictionary of Dads 82
AMELIA COULON Charlotte 98
MICHAEL LLOYD GRAY A Small Window of Opportunity 110
SHARI LANE Legacy 124
FERNANDO RIVAS MARTINEZ Contraband 140
CLEM VAHE Two Couples 160
WILLIAM E BURLESON Schubert 179
GERALD PATRICK Do You Remember? 189
MARY LEWIS Stays on the River 199
JANICE E RODRÍGUEZ Go West 210
VICTOR OKECHUKWU Dying to Tell the Tale 224
ELEANOR LERMAN The Alcoholic Mariannes 239
KRISTEN OTT HOGAN The Legend of Scarface 256
R MULLIN Maria Sin 264
TERRY SANVILLE Quiet Canyon 269
ARTHUR ALLEN MIDWINTER Sell the Kids for Food 289
CHRISTOPHER CERVELLONI Sinking Ships 302
DENNIS MCFADDEN O’Hanlon’s Last Stand 318
DENNIS MINTUN Making Prison Life a Little Easier inside cover
JOHN BALLANTINE America Was Great Until It Wasn’t 49
GILLIAN HAINES What Moms Do 131
JUHEE LEE-HARTFORD Grandmother’s House 168
EMILY BUTLER #relationshipgoals 14
Meaningless 16
DUANE ANDERSON In the Eyes of the Wind 17
In the Eyes of a Window Shade 17
CHRISTOPHER RUBIO-GOLDSMITH Blues Riffs 27
ARNIE YASINSKI How Well Did I Know Him? 28
NAOMI COOPER Ruby 31
Wild Animals 34
ALYSE SAMMARCO Tuesday Night Bingo at St. Andrew’s 35
ROXANNE CARDONA The Season of the English Language Arts Exams 46
What Happened When I Called Trina to the School Office 47
J E BENNETT Sonnet to Rain 48
MORGAN BOYER I’m giving up on New Year’s Eve 49
WADE FOX Shore Leave 54
LOUISE ROBERTSON Recycling 55
It’s Like Watching Someone Drinking Themselves to Death 56
Benediction for a Cup of Coffee 56
LESLIE G COHEN Amyloid and Tau 62
Compassion Fatigue 63
DANIEL GENE BARLEKAMP For J.L. 69
RONALD MORAN Yard Sale in July 70
JACALYN SHELLEY Why Does My Son Call Me? 75
Blue For Sky, Green For Trees 76
Dateline April 30th 1975 77
VIRGINIA WATTS Pickled Eggs 78
Mouse 79
Dead Body 80
JENNIFER M PHILLIPS Woman Troubles in the Bed of Iris 94
ANDREW VOGEL Doubt 96
Last Peach 97
WILLIAM GREENWAY The Memories of Mirrors 106
Aeolus 107
EMILY M GREEN The Housewife Waits 107
Happy Is the One Who 109
DANIELLE WOLFFE Visiting Privilege 117
ALEXANDER PAYNE MORGAN Bread 121
A Veteran’s Daughter Walks Alone at Night 122
Voyage 123
Coming Home 123
PETER DAVID GOODWIN The Broken Plate 127
Bird Watcher 129
SHANNON MARZELLA Genetic Counseling 130
The Only Time We Met 131
NANCY MCCABE Multiflora Rose 136
Bat Season 137
Not That Kind of Crown 138
STEVE ORMISTON When Footholds Vanish 139
RICHARD WEAVER A Cartographer Etches Maps 158
NICHOLAS KRIEFALL Rush Hour 159
Paradise Blvd 160
PHILIP WEXLER Settling 165
CHARLES RAMMELKAMP Psychedelic Toad 167
KATHY O’FALLON The Golden Gate 177
BIBHU PADHI Total Solar Eclipse, Cuttack 177
BETH BROWN PRESTON Eye of the Storm: Ocala, Florida, 1914 186
An All-American Girl: for Gwendolyn Brooks 187
At the Library: Montreal, Quebec circa 1950 188
A Dream 188
EMILY-SUE SLOANE The Last Gas Station 194
A Moment of Grace 195
Morning Walk 196
A Nickel Apiece 197
ROBERT L PENICK Beating Back the Night 198
DIANA DONOVAN Self-Help 206
CAROLYN JABS Chemistry 207
Shadow 207
Tech Support 208
Week End 209
B MISTY WYCOFF Cottage Loaf 217
JESSE BRYANT WILDER Lacoste 218
Dark Water 219
Splendour at Sea—for Natalie 219
Halloween Masc 220
Pancakes or Waffles 224
ARTHUR RUSSELL The Car Wash 230
Checkout Man 231
The Men’s Lunch Table 231
How To Replace A Toilet 232
Summer Afternoon 234
Plant Life 235
BILL GARTEN Starving 253
JOHN S EUSTIS Obtuse, Jerry Orbach, and Kwanzaa 253
MATTHEW MENDOZA I Am Five 255
MICHAEL ESTABROOK Sleep 260
GANNON DANIELS My Mother’s Voice 261
Paying Attention 262
JILL RUSCOLL Paperwhites 262
The Day the Boats Go in 263
EVALYN LEE I Have…Seeds in Me 266
The Next Generation of Stars 267
If You Learn Something ou should not Know 267
A Concustador Kadiddled the Last Crumplecack 268
PATRICK KELLING things I almost remember 268
LINDA LERNER Random 269
BILL BAYNES A Freshening 282
WILL KIRKLAND A Certain Elderly Frenchman, Eighty-three 282
What I have Heard about Blue Angels 283
It’s Hard to Make Small Talk Today 285
Let Us Praise this Man 286
A Murder of Crows 287
JUDITH CODY Man of 99 Years Looks out the Nursing Home Window 288
WILLIAM NUNEZ Untitled for Now 299
JIM TILLEY Stalking Prey 299
WARREN WOESSNER Spring Is not Early this Year 300
JOHN RAFFETTO Chaos Theory 301
Nevada Neon 301
Nocturnal Fever 302
NATANIA ROSENFELD Visiting My Sick Friend 315
After Quarantine 315
CHARLES SPRINGER Sprees 316
Bobbing Dead 316
KIMBERLY NUNES Double Helix 317
LYNN GLICKLICH COHEN Your 1:00 331
MIRIAM SAGAN In the Old Albertsons 332
DIANA COLE Tense on the Taconic 334
Massacre of Innocents 335
Forced Kiss 336
JAMES P COOPER That Hour 336
WILLIAM MILLER Handcarved Coffins 337
When I Take Out the Garbage 337
BILL GRIFFIN Every Spring the Trees Fill with Songbirds 338
Love Song 339
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