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First Snow  by RUSTIN LARSON

9 July 2006
Vol. 6, No. 2

The flurries begin

whitening the strip


of grass.

The Demands of Fading Light  by RUSTIN LARSON

7 July 2006
Vol. 6, No. 2

We want the gray old


winter to climb down

through the smoking pines

astride his white mule


to forgive us each separately.

A Young Girl  by RUSTIN LARSON

5 July 2006
Vol. 6, No. 2

measures

the width


of her shoulders,

washes

with a clean sponge…

harmonize  by KATHRYN L. PRINGLE

29 June 2006
Vol. 6, No. 2

the foreigners of the thought of Richard were in the top of each

emitted tree the government gathered…

harmony  by KATHRYN L. PRINGLE

26 June 2006
Vol. 6, No. 2

The Richard thought foreigner by each government…

harmony  by KATHRYN L. PRINGLE

23 June 2006
Vol. 6, No. 2

richard thought aliens were at the top of every government-issued tree.

Aeronautics  by RACHEL MALLINO

16 June 2006
Vol. 6, No. 2
elegy

Here, tourists sift sand between toes, not knowing

salt makes straw of hair. I explore the ocean for one


of Christa McAuliffe's strands.

When I have fears that I may cease to be  by JOHN KEATS

When I have fears that I may cease to be

Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,

Before high-pilèd books, in charact'ry

Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain…

The Human Seasons  by JOHN KEATS

Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;

There are four seasons in the mind of man:—

He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear

Takes in all beauty with an easy span…

Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art—  by JOHN KEATS

Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art—

Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,

And watching, with eternal lids apart,

Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite…

Morning  by THEODORE WOROZBYT

10 June 2006
Vol. 6, No. 2

Four boys stand

four years old, in the boat.


A fifth floats, face swayed to bottom,

near the prow.

Left, No Arrow  by REBECCA GIVENS

5 June 2006
Vol. 6, No. 2

Not always another chance is coming. Not


if you are lit on fire and keep the sad news


to yourself.

Patience  by REBECCA GIVENS

bliss


comes lightly and leaves


quickly, leaves nothing


much behind.

casual poem: mute–unmute  by CHRIS GILPIN

30 May 2006
Vol. 6, No. 1

TV ads for new trucks

more horsepower, more durability, more torque.


a stranger, a near stranger…

Whee!  by LETITIA TRENT

27 May 2006
Vol. 6, No. 1

She can only imagine cars

on the highway. Thinks they must glint like boats


on a blue harbor. She can only imagine boats

on a blue harbor.

Speaking Honestly About You  by LANE FALCON

Your mother calls on what would have been your 24th birthday. Yanking each word from the flowerbed of her gut…

They Are Hungry for Dry Airs  by JULIE DOXSEE

17 May 2006
Vol. 6, No. 1

the man empties his angel, meets a worn version of his daughter's face…

Pleasing the Omen  by JULIE DOXSEE

14 May 2006
Vol. 6, No. 1

Perhaps today's wind will release sheep onto a mountain you love…

One Half Shed as Though in Front  by JULIE DOXSEE

& if he died I would hold love


in the cracks below the heart, a caged


hand waiting to enfold its animal…

The Beechwood Story  by NICHOLAS READING

8 May 2006
Vol. 6, No. 1

There is a mother that loves you

despite the sum of your parts.


She really is hefting gravel and gravel

just to heft gravel.

Recognizing My Mother's Hair in a Silent Film  by NICHOLAS READING

5 May 2006
Vol. 6, No. 1

If I had a fedora's


starched heart I'd stir a horn in the streets

to announce our bourgeois surrender.

Latif Nusayyif Jasim Al-Dulaymi (10)  by JEFF ENCKE

2 May 2006
Vol. 6, No. 1

Never a lover

            I kept you


in the feretory of my heart

alongside other relics…

Aziz Salih Al-Numan (K)  by JEFF ENCKE

29 April 2006
Vol. 6, No. 1

            Postcards from Eugene

suggestive of definition


                        fate, an odor

from the table beside me…

Sa'd Abdul-Majid Al-Faisal Al-Tikriti (3)  by JEFF ENCKE

26 April 2006
Vol. 6, No. 1

admission meaning death

at the hands we love…

 

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