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I. Crude Materials from the Earth Jules Gibbs ___________________________ [First lines from Petrarch] Rachel Z. Arndt __________________________________________ Perennial Bruce Smith _______________________ “You stopped and frisked me...” Michael Bazzett ________________________________________________ All Thibault Raoult _____________ “What with hoppelpoppel there’s almost nothing left...” Juliet Escoria ____________ This Poem Was Made Possible by Money and a Few Movements of my Hand (Which Makes It No Different than Any Other Poem) John A. McDermott _______________________________ Acid is an Anagram Adam Tavel ________________ Elegy for the Lifetouch School Portraits My Wife & I Returned Because We Couldn't Afford Them II. Bones of the Hand Meg Freitag ________________________ Bildungsroman for the Toothless Ross Robbins ____________________________________________ Apple Worm Stella Corso _____________________________________________ My Desire F. Daniel Rzicznek ______________________________________ Buttermilk Amy Jo Trier _______________________________________ The Think-Wings Sean Thomas Dougherty ___________ Triptych of Desire and the Duende Vi Khi Nao _________________________________________ Four Appetizers Jules Gibbs ____________________________ [First lines from Petrarch] Emily Bludworth de Barios _____________ Packages show up on the lawn it is astonishing how they appear. III. Taking Hold of the Paper Tessa Bolsover __________________________________________ Tapestries Kirker Butler ____________________________________ The Big Sportsman Jeremy Clark _______________________________________ Those That Flew Raymond Farr ____________________ A Chop of Wind Off Bear Skin Neck— Karen Harryman ______________________________________ Second Husband BJ Soloy ______________________________ Eric, Supposedly Thirty-Two, Chris Mattingly ________ This Poem Could Be Your Life or, The Island IV. Good Enough to Eat Tessa Bolsover ________________________ The Summer I Learned To Swim Karen Harryman _____________________________________ Science Fiction Jill Kolongowski _______________________________________ Point-Blank Meg Freitag ____________________________________ Parakeet Literature Jessy Randall __________________________ “There was an old woman...” Karen Skolfield ______________________________ How to Spell “Spigot” Amy Jo Trier __________________________________ Mouth-Water Our Open V. What a Feast! Chelsea Whitton _________________________________ HOUSTON ST, 4 A.M. Phillip B. Williams _____ Often I Am Permitted to Return to the City Thibault Raoult _______________ “there is a wonderful life sense...” Davy Knittle _________________________________________ hunger shoes Vi Khi Nao __________________________________________ Urine Inmates— Adam Edelman ___________________________________________ The Vampire Diana Whitney ____________________________ Instructions for November Dobby Gibson ___________________ Safe From the Rain I Read Kuan Hsiu VI. Nuts are a Good Substitute Adam Edelman ________________________ Walking Home from the Hospital Patrick Whitfill ____________________________________ Curiosity (LV) Lesley Ann Wheeler ____________________________ Depression (geology) Vi Khi Nao _____________________________ AA Meetings for a Limestone John Myers __________________________________________________ Smudgy Bruce Smith _______________________________ “She feels, he feels...” Jessy Randall ____________________ “Cackle, cackle, Mother Goose...” Liz Hildreth _______________ Everybody, Trying to Make a Difference, We Are Sleeping VII. Archery is a Splendid Game Ross Robbins ________________________________ On Missing Being Young Allison Donohue _______________________________________ Battlefields Davy Knittle ______________________________________ treading scheme Laurie Macfee _________ Jogging the Rail Trail Past Parker & Stearns Thibault Raoult _______________________ “Brook and her daughter...” Claudia F. Savage ___________ Two Recipes for Jam Anchored by Lemon: Christopher Brean Murray ___________________________ The Forest Café Beth Roberts __________________________________________ Spotted deer Nina Puro ____________________________ Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love VIII. No More Asking,”What Can I do Now?” Bruce Smith ________________ “Everything the world finds amusing...” Karen Skolfield ____________________________________ Actuarial Table Erica Bernheim ________________________________________ Crime Scenes Tessa Bolsover _______________________ Sometimes It’s The Same Thing To Worship As To Mourn Clifford Parody _____________________________________________ Elicit Russell Jaffe ___________________________ “Life in the imperium ...” Laurie Macfee _________________________________________ We Were Here IX. The Significance of Fever F. Daniel Rzicznek ___________________ Projected on the Ceiling of a Nashville Hotel Room Gary Clark _____________________________________________ Shadow Sick DeMisty D. Bellinger _________________________________ Fly Away Home Rachel Z. Arndt _____________________________ Chicago is to the east Adam Edelman __________________________ Paper Clips of Various Sizes Gary Clark _______________________________________ Books and Friends Daniel Nester ______________________________ from Unsolicited Advice Jeffrey Skinner ______________________________________ So Say We All Dobby Gibson ______________________________________________ Avenue D The Man with a Better Book |