Issue #165: Fall 2008
Poetry
Yi-Fen Chou - When the TV Gets it Right & I'm All Wrong
Tim Lockridge - Wait, This Isn't The Future I Wanted
- Governing Bodies
Frances Ruhlen McConnel - Circus
Ellen Wright - Waiting for Miranda
Tony Sanders - Scents
Barbara Hamby - Ode to White Peaches, Pennies, Planets, and
Bijou, the Dog
Lynne Yu Ling Chien - The Tenure of Longing
Amina Saïd - like the axe forgotten at the foot of the tree
- child of the sun and the earth
Heather Kirn - "Free Bible in Your Own Language"
- Red Leaves Fall over the Rice
Will Wells - Ping Pong with the Nazis
- Padova Pilgrimage
E. Kristin Anderson - Art as Memorandum
Jenn Habel - Pastoral
Julie L. Moore - A Clear Path
George Staehle - My House Went Outside to Look at What It
Was All About and to Put Things Right
Myrna Stone - Sweet Nothings
Laura Donnelly - Darwin's Finches
Elidor Mëhilli - A Landscape Like the Moon
- Fifteen
Jen McClanaghan - Night Garden of Slow Birds
Patricia O' Hara - Posthumous
Sonia Greenfield - Ars Poetica
Sam Hamill - Terroir
William S. Trout - Sur Le Noël
David Kirby - What's Eating Gilbert Shakespeare
Joan Murray - I Saw Your Son
- The Ivory Billed One
Amy Ash - Gutting
Judith Harris - Lampshades
Dwayne Betts - Flaco's Dance
Emma Bolden - The Wanderers
William Snyder Jr. - Boy With Maize
Ryo Yamaguchi - Tightrope Walker
Gail Gilliland - Poppies After Death
Fiction
Molly Giles - Banyan
Matthew F. Cooper - Child is Gone
Adam Berlin - Meat
Non-Fiction
Anna Mills - Gift Shop in the Wild
Laura Esther Wolfson - Julia, Lina, Lynn, Irina, Anna, and Me
Cover
Maggie Taylor - Garden
Contributor's Notes