Table of Contents

• Belly

  Stephanie Dickinson

• One Last Good Time

  Michael P. Kardos

• Grannany

  Velma Pollard

• Rollerblade for Jesus

  Ellen Morris Prewitt

• Whistler's Walk

  Cherene Sherrard

• Shine

  Kevin Winchester

• Plumbers and Other Men

  Sue Allison

• Returning

  Ruth Gila Berger

• Backyard Theatre

  Joe Bonomo

• Drinking Coffee

  Minnie Bruce Pratt

• Captivities

  Arthur Saltzman

• Magio

  D.E. Steward

• Thistle

  Nicole Walker

• "Mystery Surrounds Bird Deaths"

  Joelle Biele

• Of Digestion

  K. Bradford

• Hurricane Q

  K. Bradford

• Rosa Alice Branco: Maritime Adventure

  Rosa Alice Branco

• Fisherman & Son

  Rosa Alice Branco

• Hong Kong Airport

  Erik Campbell

• It is Not in the Heavens, Neither Is It Beyond the Sea

  Nan Cohen

• Azaleas

  Lightsey Darst

• From Another Life

  Cathryn Essinger

• Big

  CJ Evans

• Spectacles Lost in the Sea

  Zack Finch

• Self-Portrait as St. Sebastian Pierced By Arrows

  Steve Gehrke

• [My mind, a magpie, steals razor blades, guard]

  Susan Gosleee

• Why Maggots

  David Hernandez

• Proof

  David Hernandez

• Gravity Sends Them

  Lesley Jenike

• Untitled (It)

  Kelli Kaufmann

• The Road Between the Rims

  Harriet Levin

• The Embrace

  Susan Lewis

• The Appointment

  Susan Lewis

• How Are Things?

  Sarah Manguso

• Circus

  Sarah Manguso

• I Bought a Hat

  Jack Martin

• Home

  Davis McCombs

• White Space

  Davis McCombs

• For Real Your Friends Are Blue Bloods

  Daniel Nester

• From my Desk

  Daniel Nester

• Overwintering

  Kathy Nilsson

• Lovers in the Red Sky: the Bird's View

  Daniel Polikoff

• Land O'Lakes

  Matt Rasmussen

• Kill School

  Frances Richey

• Waiting

  Frances Richey

• Home on Leave

  Frances Richey

• The Mating Habits of Slugs

  Roy Seeger

• Drawing Jesus

  David Shumate

• After Watching Jean Cocteau's Orphee

  Brenda Sieczkowski

• Why I Paint

  Brenda Sieczkowski

• The Opposite of War

  Tracy K. Smith

• One Man at a Time

  Tracy K. Smith

• Toads

  Chris Souza

• Pantoum

  Melissa Stein

• Front Matter

  Miles Waggener

• Laurentius' Harow

  G.C. Waldrep

• Possible Peacock, Possible Swan

  G.C. Waldrep

• [My youngest wanted to stay]

  Daneen Wardrop

• Incident and Episode in the Red House

  Ronaldo V. Wilson

• The Brown Boy's Flesh

  Ronaldo V. Wilson

• The Brown Boy's Final Killing

  Ronaldo V. Wilson

• The Brown Boy's Silence

  Ronaldo V. Wilson

• Oedipus

  Mark Yakich

• Panopticon

  Mark Yakich

• Defining Love, Enduring Brutality

  Keya Mitra sits down with Alicia Erian

• True Tragedy Is Local: Gabrielle Calvocoressi's The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart

  Leslie Harrison

• How to Obtain the Girl Scout Badge for Avant-Garde: Lara Glenum's The Hounds of No

  Barbara Duffey

• Reluctantly Domesticated: Holiday Reinhorn's Big Cats

  Albert E. Martinez

• The Thief of Memory: Dominic Smith's Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre

  Mónica Parle

• Leaving, an introduction by Alison de Lima Greene

  Robyn O'Neil

• "The Lost Landscape with Rainbow" (2005).

  Robyn O'Neil

• "Low Cloud Landscape No. 2" (2003).

  Robyn O'Neil

• "This Man Fell Silent" (2005).

  Robyn O'Neil

• "Falling" (2005).

  Robyn O'Neil

• "Forgetting" (2005).

  Robyn O'Neil

• "They Walk, Fall, Continue, and Die, No. 6" (2003).

  Robyn O'Neil

• "Five More Fallen" (2004).

  Robyn O'Neil

• "Leaving" (2005).

  Robyn O'Neil

• "Darkening" (2005).

  Robyn O'Neil