Volume 21, no. 1
POETRY
D. Nurkse
Meditation in Time of Civil War
The Unlit Room
The Comet
Derek Jon Dickinson
Four Studies of a Small Town
Richard Hoffman
Youville
Another Elegy
Lower Piney Creek, Banner, WY
David Moolten
AR-15
The Circus
Gerard Smyth
The Next Country Will Be Closing Soon
Stephen Ackerman
Ode to Walking
On Procrastination
Niels Hav
Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken,
Per Brask, Patrick Friesen, and Heather Spears
The Battered Inside
A little encouragement
My Father’s Wristwatch
During the Summer
Sleep
Lisa Kelly
Anima
Strongman
Pastures New
Baron Wormser
Hollywood Deuteronomy: Pickup on South Street
Three-Years-Out-of-College-Laundromat-
Late-Sunday-Afternoon Blues
Feather
One Morning
The Day Shift
Monarchy
Herman Melville (1884)
The Ophelia File
Roelof ten Napel
Translated from the Dutch by Judith Wilkinson
Questions About Corners
A Question About Days
What I Can Receive Inside
What Remains, What You Resemble
About Clouds
PS
What Turns on You
In the Window
Jacob Glatshteyn
Translated from the Yiddish by Marc Kaminsky
Millions of Dead
Prayer
Yiddishkeit
My Wandering Brother
Sabbath
The Joy of the Yiddish Word
Variations on a Theme
Note on the Word farfeln in “Variations
on a Theme”
Bruce Bond
Wait
Cell
Memento Mori
Ghost
Carmen Bugan
Archer Street
Suzanne Cleary
I Think That I’ve Figured It All Out
The War
The Beauty
Christine Barkley
Cage I Made
Reminders
Left a Note
Coda
Bethany Schultz Hurst
Hatchling
Velveteen
Field, Becoming Flock
Angie Estes
Spring
Dark Matter
Tim Liardet
Versions of Amusia [Concerto for 33 Violins]
On Rimsky-Korsakov’s Birthday
Versions of Amusia 5 [“Eat Him by His
Own Light”]
Ruth Valentine
Pitch Drop
Peter Krumbach
Dead Hang
Sunday Morning Practice
The Body
Yes and Nightshirt
Barry Wallenstein
It’s Been Said
Empathy
Neil Shepard
Grudging Spring
Penelope Shuttle
summoning the ferry from the shade of the willow
Contemplative Promenade Experience
Patricia Davis-Muffett
Ladybug, ladybug
Kate Farrell
To a Certain Bird
Alyson Hallett
Mapping the Interfused Spatiality of Being