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Workers in Love  by ANNE BOYER

25 April 2005
Vol. 5, No. 1

I had three husbands, two of them ghosts.

pocketbook on spook rock road  by STEVE PRICE

20 April 2005
Vol. 5, No. 1
prose poem

piggy has no basis for thinking it's his dog. #1: his dog died last summer; #2: it died of (once there was an indian princess) heartworms; #3…

Dialogue Heard with Steaks on My Eyes  by STEVE PRICE

17 April 2005
Vol. 5, No. 1

Don't be shaking people's hands with that fragrance.

You're not missing much, just a bear dressed like a bunny.

What's my best friend's name again?

It's all skin and no apple.

Page 5  by MALIA JACKSON

12 April 2005
Vol. 5, No. 1

The bed shuffled itself straight out the door,

little jerky movements on squeaky casters,

until one leg planted itself in the flowerbed.

Sun  by KEVIN CONDER

4 April 2005
Vol. 5, No. 1

…and you were told ever since you could walk

never to look directly at the sun

but you do

you stand on the rocks and do…

Hypnagogue  by PAUL MCCORMICK

25 March 2005
Vol. 5, No. 1

23:09:24 One forest says to another forest:


23:09:25 I wanna get some bees going back here.


23:09:26 What kind of beans?

What Zen Do with Whips, I Do with Willow  by PAUL MCCORMICK

21 March 2005
Vol. 5, No. 1

E. Unim didn't last long at the Met.

The chief folly being her melange piece, The Staccatoed Invertebrate—

A plastic locomotive duct-taped to a wheel chair.

If Chekhov Robbed a Bank  by CHRISTOPHER BURAWA

14 March 2005
Vol. 5, No. 1

He gets out, leaving the gun,

opens the back door. He slides the double-

bladed axe off the seat. This, he thinks, is

what happens when you put off business.

Wanda Landowska  by CHRISTOPHER BURAWA

11 March 2005
Vol. 5, No. 1

Her story involves some cow trading,

over hard drinks and

horded chocolates. It's about a harpsichord.

And a record collection…

The Angler's Lot  by ANDREW LUX

8 March 2005
Vol. 5, No. 1
prose poem

We met in the apartment of accident. You carried weapons: a pen, plastic bags, a grocery receipt; necessary means of transience, unnecessary hubris. My tongue was barbed.

Latter-Day Geniuses  by ANDREW LUX

"Would you still love me if I were frozen?" my brother asks from beneath his covers.

"I would still love you even if you were an electric dog," I murmur from across the room; the room I hate to describe.

Who learns my lesson complete?  by WALT WHITMAN

2 March 2005
Vol. 5, No. 1
classic

The great laws take and effuse without argument,

I am of the same style, for I am their friend,

I love them quits and quits… I do not halt and make salaams.

White Space  by BARBARA YIEN

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4

A strangeness is amiss. The soup is not puree

of stinging nettle. Where are all the wonderful

varmints? The sneezing turtles? The lace-thonged

fascists? This morning the road north was not paved…

Of Foreign Lands and People  by BARBARA YIEN

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4
editors' select

The day my brother brought me to the pond

of one thousand screaming white swans


it was winter in Akita.

from Shy Green Fields  by HUGH STEINBERG

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4

Being here. It's ok, to be here. The

grit that life has in it. It's mechanical


but I'm used to it. I feel the buzz inside

you, your body and laying beside it.

from Shy Green Fields  by HUGH STEINBERG

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4

Great song, as in not alone, think about

what's possible, not imaginary but picturing


the uncountable kicks of you…

from Shy Green Fields  by HUGH STEINBERG

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4

The choreography is deliberate so we know where

to put our feet. What then, these intersections?


Your body is so literal: even unexpected, low…

from Shy Green Fields  by HUGH STEINBERG

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4

A duet built around the word help. As I am

a man, I cannot talk without my body, my


body keeps leaning into you.

from Shy Green Fields  by HUGH STEINBERG

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4

God is everywhere, cake is not,

which is why I like it, God says


and lifts his fork from the plate…

from Alphaville  by PETER JAY SHIPPY

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4
abecedarian

An accessory before

curtain datum


eats forbidden grapes

(helps in jumping).

Carmen and I  by CASSANDRA SCHIEMANN

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4
prose poem

This is where we enter. Carmen and I. Mom and I. Two rotten, two diseased, two dying. I say, "Mom, once we knew what it felt like to be idle." She's throwing frozen fish sticks in the oven for dinner. I'm watching her watching television.

Lament  by ANDREW MICHAEL ROBERTS

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4

This pack of pot-bellied songbirds squats

at gutter's edge all night, passing butts

of Lucky Strikes and belting the blues.

My window's stuck up and I'm laid low.

Butchery of the Human Heart  by ANDREW MICHAEL ROBERTS

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4

All fist and forearm,

apron-stained, I am nothing to you—

a scrap. A skin. Offal of lust.

I am giblets and gristle—

Wildfire Triptych  by SEAN NEVIN

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4
editors' select

For two full days the sirens

realized their high notes

in the quivering saucers

stacked inside cupboards…

 

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