Issue 1 Table of Contents

Masthead

Editor – Jeffrey Thomson

Fiction Editors – Christy Diulus, Kate Pusey

Nonfiction Editor – Kelly Herendeen

Poetry Editors – Leslie Dame, Kristie Hamilton, Donielle McGhee

Cover Art – Prajna Paramita Parasher, “ages ago, now” (detail) from the private collection of Christina Michelmore

Poetry

• Katherine Blackbird — Three quarter moon waning in the western sky above the house where nobody lives

• Susan H. Case — Bird or Plane?

• DeWitt Clinton — Moonlight

• Curtis L. Crisler — Ode to Rain

• Chad Davidson — History; Chateau Etude

• Sarah Getty — In October; Certain Maples

• Stephen Haven — If China is a Willow

• Terry Hermsen — Sea Turtle (Columbus Zoo); Rituals of Grace, Rituals of Fear

• M.J. Iuppa — Outside, the world quivers in the winter wind

• Michael Johnson — Autumn Swim; At the Halema’uma’u Crater’s Rim

• Erin Jourdan — Hot Air Ballooning; Girl Ash

• Marjorie Maddox — Un-Beached

• Pamela McClure — Some Deaths

• Robin Metz — Balancing Act

• Kathleen Kirk — Good Fences

• William Reichard — Leslie and Sebastian

• Ravi Shankar — Yellow Blusher; Tideline

• Sue William Silverman — De s Esseintes Re-Creates the Amazon

• Kevin Stein — At the Mountain Man Redezvous in Fairplay, Colorado, 1979; Upon My Seeing, in Shadow, a Red Tail Hawk; Plunder the Song Bird’s Nest

• Judith Strasser — For My Son: When the Chicory Blooms in June

• John A. Vanek — Constant

• Don Welch — A Litany

• Terri Witek — You First; Fear

Prose

• Kerry Neville Bakken — Eggs

• Karen Blomain — The Polish War Bride

• Robert Finch — Dead Whale, Dream Whale

• Lissy Goralnik — Dreaming on the Surface

• Toke Hoppenbrouwers — Irian Jaya

• Fred Nollan — Another Canada

• John Poch — Nutgrass

• Stephen Roger Powers — Where It’s Shallow by the Island on Rest Lake

• Catherine Rainwater — Last Days

• Amy Sage Webb — Animal Control

• Baron Wormser — from The Woods: A Meditation; from The Woods: A Meditation