#62
Gargoyle 62
Published 2/18/2015
Here’s one of the stories from this issue of Gargoyle: KarenChaseStory
Table of Contents
Nonfiction
John Bacon
• from A Greater Awakening
Karen Chase
• Oedipus in the Back Seat
Michael Hemmingson
• The Last Days of My Father
Jose Padua
• Turn Up Your Radio
Janet Steen
• The Gravity of the Situation
Poetry
Abdul Ali
• Holy
• Broken Watch
• How to Begin a Short Film
R. A. Allen
• Gun Control.2
• The Quality of Laughter
Nin Andrews
• The Mentascopy
• Submission Guidelines for Open Press
Glen Armstrong
• Afro-Wig
Cynthia Bargar
• Don’t Wear Pearls to Therapy
Stacy Barton
• Between Boughs
• Standing By
• Napping
Virginia Bell
• Forgiveness
Michael Berton
• Phlegm and Philosophy
Marc Carver
• 2nd Free Beer
Michael Casey
• three ladies to Manchester
Susan Charkes
• How to Move a Mountain
• I Stand at Your Gate
Lisa Cihlar
• Carving Burr
• Tradition
Grant Clauser
• Ode to a Jackalope
Abigail Cloud
• Paulo Aims to Stay Grounded
Robert Cole
• Barbes
Katharine Coles
• Self-Portrait Up in the Air
• Canis Latrans
Robert Cooperman
• Have You Fallen
Melissa Cundieff
• Fairy Tale
J.K. Daniels
• As Mary Magdalene
Nick D’Annunzio Jones
• Seven Cities I Have Called Home
Nicelle Davis
• Foot Note 2
• Foot Note 3
• Foot Note 5
Holly Day
• Quiet, Like Marble
Margaret Del Guercio
• From the Top
• How Long You in For?
• Anne and Richard: She Picks Her Poison
Stephen Devereux
• Roof Space
Jennifer K. Dick
• Four poems from the CERN 200 Project
George Drew
• Why I Could Marry Temperance Brennan
Blair Ewing
• My Favorite Communist
• Plautus
John MacDonald
• Jesus Sleeps In
Michael Martin
• On the Eve of Her Retirement, on a Cross Atlantic Flight, A United Airline Stewardess …
Marsha Mathews
• Tribal Court in the Bush
Susan H. Maurer
• Al Mutannabi
Charles Ramsay McCrory
• wreck porn couple
Ro McFarland
• Poetry Reading at the Art Gallery
Kevin McLellan
• Surveyors
Cedrick Mendoza-Tolentino
• The Jesus Fish
• The Wedding Dress
Ken Fifer
• Gloss
Majda Gama
• There Are No Straight Lines in Nature
Gerald George
• Figment Ninety
C. John Graham
• Faultless
Andrea L. Hackbarth
• Inventory #31
Paul Hellweg
• Dien Bien Phu Cemetery
Kyle Hemmings
• The Ghost of Yul Brynner
• A Poem for the Dead
Michael Hemmingson
• The Future Poet
Katherine Anderson Howell
• Burning House
Siel Ju
• A Reading
• A Drinking Solo
Peycho Kanev
• Poet in New England
Jennifer Kietzman
• Economy of Means
• The Idea Of
Maureen Kingston
• Hey, Venus
M. J. Kledzik
• Amputations
Lora Knight
• Domestic Desire
Mercedes Lawry
• Begin the Week and What Have You
Allison Lee
• Chester Avenue Bus Station, 1999
Susan Lewis
• A Sense of Community
• Wandering
Ana Merino
• untitled poem
• The Fifth Heaven [tr. by Toshiya Kamei]
Sheryl L. Nelms
• In the Seguin Cemetery
• Sunset Pier, Key West, Florida
Amanda Newell
• A Labor Day Story
normal
• remembering sean
Shawnte Orion
• Colors Stored for Never
Ann A. Philips
• Empty Pasture
Kathleen M. Quinlan
• The Hotel Housekeeper’s Daughter
Rebekah Remington
• Forty
Susie Reynolds
• Boots
• Ma voisine l’oiseau de neige (Paris)
Christine Rhein
• Overload
David Romanda
• Heart- Shaped Box
Kalen Rowe
• Humane
George J. Searles
• Shoptalk
Claudia Serea
• After Nina’s Funeral …
• The Street Shaped Like a Key
Marisa Silva-Dunbar
• We Invited Discord to the Family Dinner
Michael Spring
• jazz in the time of war
• new tribe
Marjorie Stelmach
• Learning to Use Our Scalpels
Dariel Suarez
• (My) Colossus
• Cassoulet
Parker Tettleton
• 7-4
• I Won’t Be Familiar Again
Charles F. Thielman
• His Teenage Octave
• Steps Away from Undertow
John J. Trause
• The Mermaid
• Winter Cabbage
Quinn White
• Amnesia
Jill Williams
• Speculum
L.B. Williams
• At Fourteen
Pamela Murray Winters
• Whip-Smart
Anne Harding Woodworth
• You Ask Me What’s in My Little Notebook?
Wynn Yarbrough
• What Wild Play Enrages in Us
Fiction
Graphics
Andrew Bales
• Tori Lawson’s Perfect Mouth
Jennie Berner
• Unsettled
Matthew Blasi
• Serenade, Promenade
Gerri Brightwell
• Beast
Amy Bush
• Cement Breath
Dana Cann
• Platform
Peter Caputo
• The Rising Stench of Perfumed Angels
Gabriel Don
• Cesspools and Treasure Chests
Jay Duret
• Sushi
James Dye
• There are no Established Protocols for Entertaining Rogue Comets
Lauren Fairbanks
• from “Superpower(s)”
Lydia Morris Fettig
• Soap
Julia Figliotti
• Skin-Deep
Matthew Finn
• A Brief History of Sushi
April L. Ford
• Bleary
Thaisa Frank
• Anesthesia
Faith Gardner
• The Red Button
Sabina Grogan
• The Woods Witch
Diane Gurman
• Swimming to the Siren’s Song
Paul Handley
• 5 Stages of Dog Grief
• Our Anecdotal Integrity
Gloria L. Huang
• Down to the Bottom
Gilles Leroy
• from Alabama Song [tr. J. T. Townley]
Peter Tieryas Liu
• Phobia
Mary Luttrell
• Fractures
Jønathan Lyons
• Calling
Joe Mills
• At the Edelweiss Club, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Rebecca Nison
• Story Time
Kevin O’Cuinn
• The Water Carrier
Abby Mei Otis
• Sex Dungeons for Sad People
Virgie Townsend
• Warm and Disloyal
Jacqueline Vogtman
• As She Waited
Theodore Wheeler
• Shame Cycle
Kirby Wright
• Leg of Jen
Timothy Zila
• Thing-in-itself
Cover photo: Baltimore artsist Deborah Russell in front of one of her canvases:
3×4 ft. mixed oil, acrylic, some ink and plaster.
Photo by Gene Tanski, Tanski Studio and Gallery, Loveland, CO
Frontispiece: Allen Forrest
• New York Noir 2
• Memphis Minnie
• Lulu Jackson
• Blind Willie McTell
Dan Vera
• portraits of DC Poets: Bomani Armah, Holly Bass, Regie Cabico, Grace Cavalieri, Kim Roberts, and Joseph Ross