Issue 9—Winter 2002

POETRY

DONALD REVELL

Carcassonne
Moving Day

BARBARA CULLY

Matters of the Will

LARISSA SZPORLUK

Lerna Marsh
Sphinx

ROSMARIE WALDORP

Surface Tensions

CYNTHIA VIGLIOTTI

Swords & Swallows

RAPHAEL DAGOLD

The Oppossum and the Cat
The Carcass and the Interloper

JAMES TATE

Good Directions
The Sorry Mayor
The Nosering

MIKE DOCKINS

Elegy Should You Escape From Quicksand
Microcosm

PETER COOLEY

Reincarnation As My Sister

CHARLES HARPER WEBB

Post-Modern Life

MAUREEN SEATON

Impatiences

MARK TARDI

speed trials

FANNY HOWE

part ten of Limbo
To the western wing of the Mayo clinic
One angel’s efforts to cross the pond

MICHAELE KOTLER

Climbing Friction

BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG

The Set Glistening
Nights in the Constellation of the Tree
Stepping From its Robe

JEFFEREY ETHAN LEE

she wanted to be heaven to him

NICOLE COOLEY

Grief As Is

DONNA MASINI

Eleven-Headed Female Figure

ALBERTO RIOS AND LINDA SMITH

Inside Chance: What We’ve Done to Each Other

RUSSEL EDSON

A Midsummer’s Night
Pig Latin

NICK MOUDRY

from sonnets

WILLIAM WOODRUFF

Becky

MICHAEL BENEDIKT

Dear Ideas & Cherished Philosophies
On the Difficulty of Turning Over a New Leaf in the Book of Life

MIGUEL MURPHY

Metaphor and the Penis

KAZIM ALI

Night Boat

BARBARA GUEST

Bandusia
The Shadows of Lyme

DAVID ST. JOHN

Smoking in Havanna

DAVID SALNER

You Are a Clerk from El Salvador And a Sightless Man Enters Your Market

ALEXANDRA VAN DE KAMP

The State of the Soul

LINDA STREN ZISQUIT

Feed the Enemy

CAROLYN STOLOFF

Eleven Pieces of a Lost Jigsaw Puzzle

FICTION

KATE WALBERT

Eros in Siberia

BENJAMIN ALSUP

Herr Heartbreak

DAN CHOAN

The Premonitions

MARTHA COOLEY

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Onanism (With Blackbird and Dorothy)

CHRISTOPHER CHAMBERS

Aardvark to Aztek

MICHAEL TSAI

Hello My Name Is

KELLIE WELLS

Cow Latitudes