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Evening Street Review NUMBER 1, SUMMER 2009

Issue: Number 1, Summer 2009

Contents

By the Editor Occasional Notes SPEAK TO ME.  SPEAK.  AND LET ME SEE. 6

Neglected Help A BOOK CALLED YOU AND THE UNIVERSE 91

Cover image by Rodolfo Belloli

Associate Editor: Kip Knott

Contributors: 93

Fiction

YU HAN CHAO My Strange Grandpa 23
BAYARD Acting Stupid Has Its Pluses 34
JOE BENEVENTO Alma Moves to Mamaroneck 54
JOSHUA CROSS The Clock Tower 87

Nonfiction

HARRY JOHNSON To the Colors 74

Poetry

ARLENE ZIDE The Women in that Country 9

Variations on a Discordant Theme 11

The Sons of God 12
I Am Becoming My Evil Grandmother 14

MARGE PIERCY Marriage at the End 16

Finally it Rains 17
Alien Weather 18
When You’re Really Late 20

DAVID CHORLTON The Desert’s Memory 21
DEVON SOVA One Last Kiss 22
KATHERINE EDGREN The Charles Bridge, Prague, Christmas, 2006 29
JERRY ROSCOE At the Office Christmas Party 30
LORIE ALLRED Walking Alone 31
MAUREEN FLANNERY Finding Relief from the Heat 32
ROY BENTLEY Factory Work 33

SCOTT GALLAWAY A Dream Moves through the Winter in Portage, Ohio 47

STEVE ABBOTT Reptile Heart 48
TRISHA NELSON Hawaiian Wind 50

New York City Blessing 51

ALLISON KOLODINSKY Memento Mori 52

Voluntary Surrender 53

PAUL HOSTOVSKY History with a Smile 64

The Girl on the Plane 66
German 67

CHARLES LYNCH Wrong Color, Right Size 68
FRANK JOHNSON Abracadabra 70
JOYCE KOFF Passageways 72

Much to Do about Nothing 73

FREDERICK ZYDEK Visiting Cousin Margaret 82
ELLEN KIRVIN DUDIS The Woods Behind the Marsh 83
KATHLEEN BURGESS Revisiting Old News of Cannibals 84

Jaguars 86

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