In this Issue

PAUL AGOSTINO The Girls of Summer

ART BECK The similarities are striking: / Nicotine

ANSELM BROCKI Hide-and-Seek

DAVID CHORLTON Craft / Invocation: for an evening of horror stories

DAVID CHURCH Early Winter Morning

JON CONE Ice / Photograph

JOHNNY CORDOVA Upon Seeing The Body Of A Friend

DANIEL CROCKER So, Where Does This Leave Me?

MATT DENNISON What Happens / Pool Hall

JIM DOUGLAS Happiness / Hobbies

NATALIE DURHAM Been Thinking About Tuscon / The Smell of Freshly Cut Grass

DEBRA ESAREY Perfect Gifts

JULIE GAMBERG Carrion

JOHN GREY Rain On The Roof

RED HAWK Lacks Punch / The Plumber / What I Saw Through The Hotel Window / ix-xi

MICHAEL HEMMINGSON Love Me Tender

ZYSKANDAR A. JAIMOT The Class Warfare of Sex

ERICA JEN a war effort / get out

BRAD JOHNSON Waking Up This Morning (Hard-On Poem #93)

MICHAEL KRIESEL The Wittenberg Hotel

LYN LIFSHIN Hiroshima / One Woman’s Story / They Used Chocolates / Haiti

GERALD LOCKLIN i wrote tonight / paul gauguin: the siesta

CALDER LOWE The Muse’s Lapdance

LEE LOZOWICK untitled

ED MARKOWSKI What Could Have Been

CATFISH McDARIS Mexican Waterfalls

LOUIS McKEE Fourteen, Fifteen / American Beauty

ANN MENEBROKER At The Mercy Of Another Hour

TODD MOORE memphis willie / the last / street / standing / lady on

B.Z. NIDITCH The Disappeared

WILLIAM PACKARD untitled

ROBERT L. PENICK Cleaning / The End of June / Something New / Error

ROBERT PLATH Playing God

CINTHIA RITCHIE Communion

MIRIAM SAGAN Conflagration

ANDREW SCHELLING Haibun for the Hayman Fire

VERA SCHWARCZ Instead Of Sleep

JIM SIMMERMAN Here and There

PATTI SIRENS Just Beyond the Edge of the Woods

JOAN JOBE SMITH Ted Williams’s Tongue As Recalled By A Former Cocktail Waitress Tomato / Ars Longa, Vita Brevis

VIRGIL SUAREZ Forlorn: Vanishing Points on the Anxious Night

MICHAEL PAUL THOMAS New Year

AMY UYEMATSU It’s Like Gasoline

FRED VOSS This City Is Full Of Pianos / “Hola” Is About As Far As I Can Get / All Those Glorious L.A. Cantinas / Last Judgement / This Tree Grew Out Of His Heart

A.D. WINANS Untitled / Strange Happenings / Surreal Dream One / Winter Poem

Cover Photo: “Lara,” Oil on canvas, by ANNA TREDEAU