#72
Table of Contents
Nonfiction
• Music Above the Rest
• Sorry, Sort of
• Self-Help
• The Church
• Jesus was a Communist. George Washington was a Liar. Mary Poppins was a Bitch.
Poetry
• God is a Treasure Hunt
Sara Backer
• Against Thematic Unity
Daphne Beaber
• Orange Dreams
Roy Bentley
• Recuperation from an Incident Involving an Armadillo through Gmail and a Poem by William Heyen
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
• Cassandra Visits the Fertility Clinic
Sheila Black
• Post-Confessional
• Persephone in Texas
Mary Buchinger
• To the Raven Feeding on Carrion on the Side of the Road
Pamelyn Castro
• Eve-Pandora
Laura Chalar
• The Horreum at Narbonne
• At the Figari Museum
• Blake: Late Night Cable Guest
• On Becoming a Man
Barbara DeCesare
•Six Poems about Herons
Deborah Elliott Deutschman
• Poetry in Another Year of War
Lisa M. Dougherty
• Husband
• Portrait of Prince as Walt Whitman
• Philadelphia
• Geography Lesson
David Eberhardt
• Koan
• In Mem, zen master Peter Matthiessen, nature writer—zen prelude with fugue
• Poem after music by Albeniz—“Cordoba”
• Fragment
• A Simple Air
• Vermont
Irene Fick
• Thinking About Death at the Dollar Tree
Andy Fogle
• from Narrow, Little Way
Jeannine Hall Gailey
• Honestly I Should Be a Lot More Paranoid
• I Worry I’m Falling Into
Roberto Carlos Garcia
• Elegy in which I explain the end of the world to a ghost
•Alma (Spanish), (n.) soul, essence, life
• When You’re in Romania and Wish You Were Alone
Susan Gubernat
• I’m No Buddhist, But . .
• Art: For Whose Sake?
• “Feels Like Sugar on the Floor”
• Kaleidoscope
• The Windowpanes of Phantom Addresses
• Ineffable
• We Thought We Were White
• Snow White
• Of Water
• Proportional Relationships
• When the Trine Between the Moon and Mercury Tempers the Vibe
• Whiskey—Tango–Foxtrot
Jane C. Miller
• A House Chart & the Men in Them
• The Love-Life of Animals by Wolfgang Von Budden
Charley Mitcherson
• Dos Manos/My Two Hands
• The Day After the Latest Mass Shooting
• Why so much grief for me?
• Child, Out—
• Out of Body
Charles Rammelkamp
• Doing the Twist
Miriam Sagan
• Prairie like a Bride
• Spelunke
Dennis Saleh
• Exchequery
Claire Scott
• The Grave Pulls
• Templates for the Long Married
• Old Long Since
• How You Know You Are in Eastern Tennessee
• Daddy-O
Maureen Sherbondy
• Trying to Keep God Out of My Poems
• Kite Surfer in New South Wales Hit by Tail
• Grand Theft Life
• Notes from the Post-Apocalypse
• My Gay Ungulate Objectifications
• In and Out of the Arkansas
• My Own Personal Hazing into the Gut-Wrenching Fraternity of Nothing
Darrell SCIPOET Stover
• Henry Ain’t Eleanor and Eleanor Ain’t Shuckin’ and Jivin’
Tim Suremondt
• Jubal Early Keeps Riding By
• Borderland
• Rudi and Bel
• The Table of Truth
Don Wentworth
• Hafiz’s Dream of Hafiz
• On the Science of Approbation
• Princess Diana’s Hat
• John Chamberlain’s First Assemblage from Two Fenders Off a ’29 Ford
• Calculus
• Bluebeard
Fiction
Art
AJ Atwater
• 1969
A.A. Balaskovits
• Get Bent
Adam Byko
• The Plagues Upon Our Houses
• Fine with Everything
• She Would Never Use
• Minty
• To Not Forget
• You’re Not on Vacation
Susann Cokal
• You Love Lucy
Donya Currie
• Assassination
Eric Darton
• And the drummer, he’s so shattered
Leonora Desar
• Panties
• Snow Pose
• Everything here is yours
Stephanie Dickinson
• Montrose/On the Cusp of the Plague
Gary Fincke
• Waiting for Ray
David Holloway
• The Future of the Lizard Circus
Andrea Jarrell
• At Sea
Wayne Karlin
• The War on Terror
Susan Land
• A Ring, A Knee
Dennis McFadden
• On an Old Billy Goat
Anatoly Molotkov
• Upside Down Pictures
Melissa Scholes Young
• Lighthouse
Ignacio Solares
• The Orders
Ignacio Solares
• The Orders
Rosanna Staffa
• Animals with Wings
Darrell SCIPOET Stover
• Rum Funk
Fumiki Takahashi
• Grown-Ups Don’t Give Way
Susan Isla Tepper
• Africa . . . then
Rene Georg Vasicek
• Novel #138
• Boy Noise
Carolyn Watson
• The Conductor
• Snow Days
Stan Lee Werlin
• These Are Not the Droids You’re Looking For
David Alpaugh
• Photo Poem. Disunited We Stand
Charley Moon
• Two Hands (photo)