Volume 17.2


CONTENTS

Paul Brownfield
    Roommates
Winston Weathers
    The Monkey Dream
Tsipi Keller
    Men at Work
Glen Weldon
    The Last Time They Kissed On the Mouth
J. Wagner
    Last Dance
Matt Clark
    Some Nights
Robert Neuwirth
    Immorality
Susan M. Gaines
    Luck and the Three Gringitas
Andra St. Ivanyi
    Threse Necessary Things
Deborah Bayer
    Oh, Harry
Edward Kleinschmidt
    Hair
Michelle Boisseau
    At the Stillborn Grave
    The City
    Gratia Plena
Shirley Warren
    Watering Place
Hildred Crill
    A Room of One’s Own
Charles Edward Eaton
    Screwdriver
Gail White
    Letter to My Friend in the Convent
Audrey Lorde
    Need:  A Chorale for Black Woman Voices
    Afterimages
    Sister, Morning is a Time for Miracles
Marilyn Taylor
    Clown
Charles Munoz
    Journey
Margaret Almon
    Nightshift
    Saturday Morning
Matt Rohrer
    To a Croatian Poet
Sue Cowing
    On Your Fiftieh Birthday
David Silverman
    Dental
Carolyne Wright
    Night Walk Around Green Lakes
Return to Sender
Kim Schwartzhoff
    White Fog
    Announcing Your Arrival
Laurie Anne Whitt
    The Absinthe-Drinker
James Liddy
    Larry Josephs, 34, Writer About AIDS, Dies of the Disease
    Bobby the Commie
Kathleene West
    Peony Background
    For My Widowed Sister
Angela J. Davis
    Blue Window
Theresa Pappas
    The Voice
Ursula K. Le Guin
    The Queen of Spain, Grown Old and Mad, Writes to the Daughter She Imagines She Had By Christoper Columbus
Albert Goldarth
    Stephen Hawking, Walking
Nin Andrews
    Man-Thing
    Zip Codes
Philip White
    The View From Home
Scott Owens
    Saint Sebastian’s Widow
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
    Guest Place
Judith Skillman
    The Animals of Complicity
Rick Hilles
    Artisans of the Tomb
Angela Ball
    Nora Part One
    Nora: Part Three
Constance Pultz
    Setting the Stage
Susan Firer
    I, the Excommunicate
Saint Wilgefortis
    God Sightings
Thomas R. Smith
    The Muskie
Greg Delisle
    The Sun
Diane Wakoski
    The Emerald Tattooed On My Arm
Lynne Knight
    Slides
R. Wittwer
    Children’s Games
Marge Piercy
    Between Two Hamlets
    Too Soon to Be True
John Waldman
    Akin to Ashes
Lee Evans
    Night Hags Over America
Juile Suk
    Listening to Rodrigo’s Concerto for Guitar
Nancy Westerfield
    Barbie’s Exciting Life
Maurya Simon
    Revival
Jane McVeigh
    The Woman in the Supermarket
Chris Kennedy
    Broadway Lament:  San Francisco, 1978
Lee Sharkey
    The Dream of Gold
Jane Miller
    Turning Over the Earth
Bob Hicok
    Random Events
    A Night at Modern Prototype
Randall R. Freisinger
    Winter Storm
Thomas Fitzsimmons
    Sea Changes
William Greenway
    Luck and the Literary Pilgrim
Doyle Wesley Walls
    Blasting St. Francis with the Garden Hose
Joseph Duemer
    Soul Searching
Lucia Cordell Getsi
    Pandora’s Box: Female Silencing and the Plague of Men
Miles Wilson
    Body of Work
John Haines
    The Far Country of Sleep
Ewing Campbell
    The Bridge of the Inca
Rebecca Flowers
    The Coincidence of Rape
Lisa Knopp
    Just Words
Ann Hostetler
    Adrian C. Louis’s Among the Dog Eaters
Tom Clark
    Frederico Garcia Lorca’s Collected Poems
Abraham Rzepkowicz
    Norman Manea’s October, Eight O’Clock
Ann Hostler
    Susan Firer’s The Underground Communion Rail