I. PROBABLY BUTTER WILL NEVER LOSE ITS PLACE
Meditations __________________________________________________ Sasha West
It seemed _____________________________________________________ Bob Hicok
Exegesis ____________________________________________________ Mary Ruefle
Loose-Strife _________________________________________________ Dean Young
Swan ______________________________________________________ Ana Božičević
Birdsong Trumps Dumptruck __________________________________ Fred Schmalz
In the Aviary ___________________________________________ Darcie Dennigan
The Bird Outside ____________________________________ Amanda Lichtenberg
Patina _____________________________________________________ Patti White
II. DIGESTIBLE AS MILK ITSELF!
A Penny for Your Thoughts ___________________________________ Mary Ruefle
One interpretation of your silence ____________________________ Bob Hicok
Three Poems ______________________________________________ Anthony McCann
The Fourth Octave __________________________________________ Chad Sweeney
Seven-Eleven Civil Defense Test ____________________________ Patti White
38183 ___________________________________________________ Edmund Berrigan
40 Fortunes ________________________________________________ Dobby Gibson
THE CONTAINER MUST FEATURE A SPOUT OR BE DESIGNED SO
THAT CONTENTS CAN BE POURED WITHOUT SPILLING ___________ Sierra Nelson
III. THEY ARE, PERHAPS, THE BEST ALL-AROUND FATS
To bears, who are kind enough to live in our stories __________ Bob Hicok
How to Make the Skirts My Father Wore _____________________ Jill Stoddard
Monsterest Cherry Pie ________________________________ Oscar Ames Cowgill
Peter Gabriel _____________________________________________ Samuel Amadon
Ethos __________________________________________________ Steven Toussaint
Civil War _______________________________________________ Mathias Svalina
Cooler Heads ______________________________________________ Samuel Amadon
Volted and Re-Volted _____________________________________ Evan Commander
You and Your Monster _______________________________________ G.C. Waldrep
IV. RICH IN BODY-BUILDING NUTRIMENT
from Bleak Haiku ____________________________________________ Mary Ruefle
Study in Werewolf ____________________________________________ Tony Aarts
In My Kid Bed, Sleeping, Shotguns Stored Below _______ Sara Michas-Martin
Holy War ________________________________________________ Mathias Svalina
Glow In The Heart ________________________________________ Evan Commander
Some Moons _________________________________________________ Steve Healey
A Summer’s Breeze _________________________________________ Ana Božičević
* * * ________________________________________________ Joshua Beckman
Today in the classic sense of
itself, arranged simplicity. ________________________ Jeremy Hoevenaar
V. THE CRISP CRACKLINGS LEFT AFTER STRAINING
Melting _________________________________________________ Nina McConigley
Poem Beginning with a Line of Alice Notley ___________ Amanda Lichtenberg
Postcard from the Villa Catullo _________________________ Lindsay Bernal
You Will Profit Soon From an Investment Opportunity _____ Maggie Ginestra
PUSH BUTTON FOR FLOOR DESIRED _____________________________ Sierra Nelson
My Famous Broken Heart __________________________________ Stuart Dischell
The Elf’s Disquisition ______________________________________ Mary Ruefle
ESL Students in Period 1, 8:30-9:50 AM ___________________ Lauren Shapiro
Automatic _______________________________________________ Edmund Berrigan
from American Cantos _____________________________________ Jeremy Schmall
VI. WHAT TO MAKE WITH EXTRA EGG YOLKS
from Bleak Haiku ____________________________________________ Mary Ruefle
* * * _____________________________________________ Joshua Beckman
Room with Two Sofas _______________________________________ Seth Abramson
[9.4] from blepharism _________________________________ Christopher Janke
from American Cantos _____________________________________ Jeremy Schmall
The High Grass ______________________________________________ Tony Mancus
Drug War ________________________________________________ Mathias Svalina
Dolores Park ______________________________________________ Chad Sweeney
VII. SLICES PERFECTLY WHEN CHILLED!
from Bleak Haiku ____________________________________________ Mary Ruefle
Roberto Clemente as a door to
spring as a door to who knows ______________________________ Bob Hicok
Failure is the Chance __________________________________ Stephanie Reents
In The American Grain ____________________________________ Anthony McCann
Nuts & Bolts ________________________________________________ Tricia Suit
North ___________________________________________________ Edmund Berrigan
VIII. WILL NOT SMOKE OR BURN EXCEPT AT HIGH TEMPERATURES
Ghost Gust ___________________________________________________ Dean Young
TVS WITH ANTENNAS WILL STOP WORKING ON THE
NINETEENTH OF NEXT FEBRUARY ___________________________ Seth Abramson
How to Build a Radio-Belly _________________________________ Tony Mancus
The Defensive-End Of Beauty ______________________________ Evan Commander
Instead of Watching the Patriots _________________________ Lindsay Bernal
Floor Meat ___________________________________________________ Todd Colby
A Tuesday Lesson _____________________________________________ Maud Casey
The Secret Language of Philately ___________________________ G.C. Waldrep
DO NOT PLAY IN ON OR AROUND OR OCCUPY FOR ANY PURPOSE _____ Sierra Nelson
from Bleak Haiku ____________________________________________ Mary Ruefle
IX. HELPS BUILD UP GENERAL BODILY RESISTANCE
Under Your Face Is Another, Friend ___________________________ Tony Aarts
Final Jottings ______________________________________________ Mary Ruefle
The Elementalist ___________________________________________ Chad Sweeney
Inviting an Acquaintance to Supper ___________________________ Paul Violi
We’re Different Enough, It’s Fun To Try _________________ Maggie Ginestra
The moon is the natural environment of thinking. _______ Jeremy Hoevenaar
from American Cantos _____________________________________ Jeremy Schmall
Untitled ______________________________________________________ Ben Kopel
X. COMPLETELY PROTECTED UNTIL YOU OPEN IT IN YOUR KITCHEN
The Wedding of the Rails ____________________________________ Sally Keith
A Man Without a Mouth, Part 2 ______________________________ Steve Healey
[9.2] from blepharism _________________________________ Christopher Janke
Merely nearness in which you find
your small radial longings. _______________________ Jeremy Hoevenaar
The Diviner ____________________________________________________ Andy Jen
[“Two of my friends are holding each other...”] __________ Rauan Klassnik
Coming to Light _____________________________________________ Mary Ruefle
THE TOP SHELF OF THE REFRIGERATOR IS USUALLY SATISFACTORY.