January, 2000
T A B L E of C O N T E N T S
POEMS
Caron Andregg & Robert Wynne,
Editors’ Note (1999)
Holaday Mason,
Nightfall: Wattle’s Mansion June 14, 1986
Jeffrey Little,
towards a theory for a unified field
Suzanne Lummis,
Hurrying Toward the Present
Wayne Miller,
Walking Home
Naomi Shihab Nye,
Cross That Line
Michael Estabrook,
Listening to Abbey Road, December 31, 1998
Jill McDonough,
To the woman who wrote “Oh my lord, David G. has the biggest cock and loves like no other man!” on the swinging door of a bathroom stall in a reggae bar on Sixth Street, Austin, Texas:
An Argument for the Canonization of Joanna Davidson as Mermaid
Dana Gelinas, translated by Kathleen Snodgrass,
Portrait of a Lady
Street of Brides
H.L. Hix,
(Three hundred years leaves little legible)
(Señoritas mummied in Juarez sun,)
Sarah Maclay,
I think she wears a wedding dress
Glover Davis,
Second Moon
Taylor Graham,
Nape of April
Marcia L. Hurlow,
Watching Jorie From The Livingroom Window
Gary Sange,
Vigil
Lyn Lifshin,
September 26, 1996
Feeding Ducks, Grey November
Eloise Klein Healy,
Postcard
Jacqueline Marcus,
Small Tree
From The Other Side of the Night
Kenneth Pobo,
Paul Delvaux, The Red City
Dorothy Barresi,
Rouge Pulp
Nan Cohen,
Horatio
Julie Croston,
Other Passengers
Jamie O’Halloran,
Frontier
Jean Monahan,
A Bowl of Foreign Coins
Camille Dungy,
To Put Things Right
Hayley R. Mitchell,
When we were ten
Forugh Farrokhzaad, translated by Parviz Omidvar and Iraj Omidvar,
I Feel Pity for the Flower Garden
Robert Nazarene,
Green Pastures
Jackson Wheeler,
General Wheeler’s Cavalry at Decatur
Simon Perchik,
451
Suzanne Scarfone,
Think Of It As a Pleasant Change
Philip Dacey,
Sermon of the Country Mouse
Susan Musgrave,
Al Purdy Took a Bus to the Town Where Herodotus was Born
Love’s Tourmaline Shirt Studs
Mary Winters,
What To Do With Your Ancestor’s Skull
Virgil Suarez,
Poem for Barbarito Diez
Remedios Caseros
Ace Boggess,
The Naming Ceremony
Robert Arroyo, Jr.,
Proposition
Yet Another Poem About Death
Bob McHeffey,
2nd Anniversary
Thom Ward,
When We Lie Down Beneath Vanilla Wood
David Citino,
The Road Beneath The Road
Jim Natal,
Eglise, Paris
Gary Young,
(In Missouri there are towns named for saints…)
Janet Holmes,
Lake Superior, Summer
Tricia Cherin,
Vertical Landscape
Saadi Youssef, translated by Khaled Mattawa
Summer
Liz Gonzalez,
Tumbleweed and Palm Trees
Marc Swan,
Under a Balkan Sky
Brenda Yates,
Last Thursday Night
Anthony Seidman,
Chihuahua Desert
Patricia Gray,
Calf Born in Snow
Barry Spacks,
A Peacock
Kevin King,
Speed Queen, The Burnham Laundromat
Charles Harper Webb,
Trouble
Ron Koertge,
The Doctor Sighs
Fault
Wendy Taylor Carlisle,
Letters From Mexico
Tim Scannell,
Burrow
Marin Sorescu, translated by W. D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea,
Dream
Brendan Constantine,
Aubade
Karen Stromberg,
Speechlessness
Richard Beban,
Untitled Hopper
Richard Foerster,
Leafy Sea Dragons at the Musée Océanographique, Monaco –
Ray Bartkowech,
Form and Content
Gerald Locklin,
andre derain: window at vers, 1912
david hockney: garrowby hill, 1998
Joshua McKinney,
The Secret –
Radu Andriescu, translated by Adam J. Sorkin with the poet
The End Of The Road, The Beginning Of The Journey
Fred Muratori,
Farther
Cecilia Woloch,
from Tsigan (The Gypsy Poem)