#68
Gargoyle 68
House (collage, 2004 — front cover)
and Reduction (collage, 2005 — back cover) by Star Black.
Published 5/1/2018
Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Nancy Naomi Carlson
• Until I Die of Something Else
Irene Fick
• The Wishful Entrepreneur
Chelsea Morningstar
• Bubbles
Daniel Mueller
• Antivenom
D.E. Steward
• Off the Beach
Debbie Urbanski
• Verb (Usually Used with Object)
Poetry
Kelli Allen
• An Asterisk for the Weather
• The Mountain Loon Tells a Story for Lovers
David Alpaugh
• Secret/Life
• Miles/Fucker
Jocko Benoit
• Filtered Sunlight
• All Out of Bubble Gum
• Godzilla vs. the Economist
Roy Bentley
• Zenowich and Raymond Carver
Shinjini Bhattacharjee
• Polaroid
• Paper Theatre
Paula Bonnell
• Park Street Station
Ann Bracken
• The Mental Health Box
• Branded
Shirley J. Brewer
• Wedding Dress
• Annie O
Chris Bullard
• Ode to Stupidity
Doritt Carroll
• EEG
Anne Champion & Jenny Sadre-Orafai
• Spell for the Hive
• Spell for Drained Public Pools
• The Gone, the Disappeared
Alan Chazaro
• Pinata Theory #2
• Leaving Footprints on Waterfalls
• Using Google Translation in Mexico
Grant Clauser
• Coat of Arms
• Ode to the Half-Dead Bear on the Way to Defiance
Katharine Coles
• Fine Dining
• Endure
Robert Cooperman
• The Newlyweds
Kathleen Corcoran
• Cures and Charms
Barbara Crooker
• Martini
• Why I Love Being Married to a Chemist
Gregory Crosby
• Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion
Meg Eden
• Purity Conference
• North Carolina Historic Home Festival
Dana Curtis
• Bedroom Lights
Jim Daniels
• Elegy for Phone Booth
• Phone Booth, Eight Mile and Ryan
Mark DeCarteret
• Nerval
• Not to One’s Taste
• The One Absent from All
Barbara DeCesare
• Poem Employing Somewhat Cheap Metaphor to Describe My Anxiety about Public Performance
• Other Son
Deborah Elliott Deutschman
• The Last Generation Before Zyprexa
• Night Library: Marcel Broodthaers
Liz Dolan
• White Space
M. Scott Douglass
• Finding Iowa
• Math Don’t Lie
• Sunset Over Suburbia
• You Know These Roads
George Drew
• Romancing Lamentation on the Ides of March
David Ebenbach
• Not Long After the War, There Was Another War
• Be the Change
• Hanukkah
• Disappearing Cities
Kari Ann Ebert
• I Caught a Train to Dublin Once
• By Chance One Night, I Met a Man Named Sunday
Cathryn Essinger
• Namaste
Dave Essinger
• Poetry à Bears
Jean Esteve
• Bubbleland
Lane Falcon
• Crescent
Gary Fincke
• Contagious (A Sequence)
Jared Frank
• The Following Program Contains Theatrical Recreations
• The Growing Season
Christien Gholson
• Bodies, Waiting
• Job Interview
Sid Gold
• Point
• Three
• Dream
Eric Greinke
• Summertime Blues
Jim Gross
• The Let Go
• The Light Applause
• One for the Ph.D.
• One for Bukowski
Michael Gushue
• Ennui
Hedy Habra
• Or How Could he Ever Win the Heart of Any Woman?
• Vanishing Point
Alan Harawitz
• Eternal Paradise
• Sexy Names
Johnny Hartner
• Attack of the 50-Foot Woman Redux
• Welcome to My Kibosh
Timothy Houghton
• Hoarding
J. Howard
• Application: More Than the Sum of Things
Nancy Iannucci
• My Love in Ring Years
Donald Illich
• Temporarily Human
Bruce A. Jacobs
• Perfect Game
• Playing Footsie
• Relief
Brad Johnson
• Buddha Looking Thin
Jeffrey N. Johnson
• The Immigrant
Richard Jones
• The Hayrick
George Kalamaras
• Tonight at the Five Spot
• So Many Roads
• Bread Enough / Lantern-Lit/ Lost Heart of the Hound
• Just When I Thought I’d Finished Describing All the Photos of the President’s Hounds, I Come Across This Shot of a Reporter and Johnson’s Dog, Him
Stephen Kessler
• On Bookshop Slopes
• Garage Elegies 22
• Garage Elegies 8
Rose Knapp
• Poie e Sista
• Harper’s Poem #1
Luisa Kolker
• Artemis in Taos
• D.H. Lawrence Memorial
• White Shell Woman
• The Tearing Apart
Laurie Kolp
• Bumper Stickers
Beth Konkoski
• Winter Rounds
Lyn Lifshin
• From Lips, Blues, Blue Lace: On the Outside
• Upstate NY, in the House I’m in Rarely These Last 12 Years
• Nothing Gold Can Fly
• How Unlike Frost’s Country, Virginia Square
• Hot Muggy Afternoon on Main Street
• On the Day of the Bombing
• The Mad Girl Dreams of Morocco
• The Sadness, the Beauty of White Trillium
Edwin Madrid
• Young Lady at Lunch
• Any Other Flesh
• Turkey Dead for Love
• Word Pepper
Saundra Rose Maley • All the Sun in a Golden Cup
• Miss America, 1951
Stephen Malin
• Morning Drill
Aoife Mannix
• Reconstruction
• How To Go
• Paranoia
• Simple Directions
Michael Mark
• Goodbye to the Tecopa Pupfish
Richard Martin
• Pathetic Love Poem
Susan H. Maurer
• Orlando 2016
Miles David Moore
• Man on Terrace with Wine, Recalling a Line from Hermann Hesse
Elisabeth Murawski
• Portrait: Mademoiselle Boissiere Knitting
• Unexpected Point of Intersection
Sheryl L. Nelms
• Summer Was
Amanda Newell
• Elastration
• The Black and White of Him in His Wetsuit
Annette Oxindine
• On Matter
January Pearson
• Cold Ease
Kate Peper
• Love Is an Airborne Thing
• What the Witch Told Me
Michael Pontacoloni
• Happy Birthday
Barbara Ann Porte
• Why Old Women Leave Their Money to Art Museums
Ana Prundaru
• Away
• Indian Summer
Kathleen M. Quinlan
• Ritornello
Charles Rammelkamp
• Swann’s Way
• Tyranny Has a Witness
Michael Ratcliffe
• Thoughts While Sitting Along the Lower Potomac
Alan C. Reese
• A Station of the Cross
Virginia Smith Rice
• pre : light
• Derelict, Kerosene
• Glass Flight
• Begin with a Diamond (Weld, Welt)
William Rivera
• In Love
Kim Roberts
• The Fiji Merman
Stephen R. Roberts
• Pineapple Western with Slow Posse
Cathryn Shea
• A Marriage Next Door
Gregory Sherl
• In the Dining Hall at the OCD Center at Cedar Ridge
Gary Stein
• The Stuttering Anesthesiologist
• Teegarden’s Star
Kurt Steinwand
• Pantone Library of Color
• Free Huey
Holly Stone
• The Little Snow Globe Place in Our Society
Adrienne Su
• Home Baker
• Mobility
Marc Swan
• Wild West
Jason Tandon
• Memory
Adam Tavel
• How to Write a Nature Poem
• Smear
Sally Toner
• Prom Afternoon
• When Your Healthiest Relationship Is with the GPS
Erick Verran
• Maiden Voyage
Michael Waters
• McSorley’s (1969)
• Psychological Sit-Up
Anne Pierson Wiese • Bird on Barck Street
• Out of Reach
Pamela Murray Winters
• Oliver Schroer’s Last Invention
• Fifty-Five
• Carom
• Altogether
Rob Winters
• Make Way for Ducklings
Valerie Wohlfeld
• Hive
• Horse Latitudes
Emma Sky Wolf
• Familiar
Michele Wolf
• Runaway
• Homeless
Andrea Wyatt
• Mark Rothko’s Paintings
• Galesville
• 1919
Ed Zahniser
• No More Duct Tape Solutions
• Dear Heloise, Dear Abby, Dear Someone
• If They Ask You
Fiction
Screenplay
Isaac James Baker
• Bury Me in Smoke
Tom Ball
• At the Disturbing Goat Bar
Lucy Biederman
• A Cabinet
Linda Blaskey
• Breath
Charles Ciccoretti
• Hey
Don Dussault
• Not Better Late
CM Dupre
• Sea & Sand or the Exchanges at City Station North
James Dye
• The Empty Room
Julie Eill
• Dead Girls
Alison Fairbrother
• The Shield
Seth Fischer
• Our Most Frequent Requests
Vishwas R. Gaitonde
• The English Widow
Andrew Gretes
• Artie and the Veil of Maya
Cyndy Hendershot
• While My Skin Rots Away
Robert Hinderliter
• The Leprechaun
LA Lantz
• Hair of the Dog
Raima Larter
• The Initiate
Christine Ma-Kellams
• Dave
Mark Maxwell
• Thin Places
Jen Michalski
• Greater Good
Teresa Burns Murphy
• The Tree House
Eric Andrew Newman
• Down the Mississippi
Janet Olsonbaker
• Only Memory
Meredith Pond
• Anniversary Party with Gatsby in Mind
Nickalus Rupert
• The Worst Mile
Curt Saltzman
• The Observer and the Observed
Nick Sansone
• Weekends
John Saul
• Tapas
Sonia Scherr
• First Kill
Beate Sigriddaughter
• Snapshots of the Wife of the Man Who Wouldn’t Dance
Curtis Smith
• Playground
Donna D. Vitucci
• Shelter
Stan Lee Werlin
• Vietnam Vortex Sutra
Kelly Wolfe
• Beautiful Bicuspid
Tara Isabel Zambrano
• No Man’s Land
laudanum at 33
• Goodbye Jane
Art
Allen Forrest — 5 Drawings
• Clandestine Service
• City Life, in Transit
• City Life, Cyclist
• London Noir, #1
• London Noir, #3
Marilyn Stablein — 3 Collages
• Cloud Boat in Rising Seas
• Thinking of Her
• Zebra Collage
Kelly Cressio-Moeller — 6 Photos
• Christ, Discarded
• Italian Cypress Surfaces
• The Century Plant Remembers Ruth Asawa
• Palm Dunk
• Jesus Takes a Break from the World
• Lemon Fingers