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Ice Bone  by LAUREN GOODWIN SLAUGHTER

17 December 2006
Vol. 6, No. 4
poetry

Say the black road

is a bleached crest raveling


the one distance

meant for you (all of us).

Eulogy  by PAUL GUEST

8 November 2006
Vol. 6, No. 3
poetry

So that this will seem like words between

old friends, I'll say it was painless.

And quick. I'll say it was mercy

and behind my face where I put

things like The Truth and dreams…

Two Halves: Elegy for One Summer's Dawn  by KEITH MONTESANO

30 July 2006
Vol. 6, No. 2
poetry

Bellefontaine: a town on the way to somewhere else, a place

where you run out of gas, stop to make love on a picnic table


somewhere by the wheat field—when, toward magic hour, the boy

already loaded the gun, the smell of bacon wafting outside…

Moment  by LAURA MCCULLOUGH

28 December 2005
Vol. 5, No. 4
poetry

There's a moment in every dog's life

when it surrenders its dogginess


to a greater good…

Thorn  by MIGUEL MURPHY

2 September 2004
Vol. 4, No. 3
poetry

My eye never filled with blood.

I never asked why

was I drugged and held down. Taken away.

Mesmerized. I wasn't a two-headed dog…

Inheriting Stock in Eskimo Pie  by JOSHUA POTEAT

2 June 2004
Vol. 4, No. 2
poetry

And why not an equation? The numbers

          keep him warm at night, beg him to read stories.


They believe in him when his wife will not,

          when the forecast calls for snow, unending snow…

 

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