Summer 2006: Volume 41.2

Contents

FICTION

1 Jason Watt First and Luck

52 Porter Fox You and the Night Music

54 Doors

77 Keith Lee Morris Coffee at Mrs. Murdoch’s

116 Steven Schwartz Congregants

139 Rachel Haley Himmelheber The Next Liz and Eddie

161 Maureen Pilkington Word Game

POETRY

Special Supplement: Poetry of Sean Branson

19 shauna osborn astigmatic revelations: a post-mortem conversation; or, an extended bransonian ode

26 Sean Branson “All the fun you have without me you’ll pay for”

27 Captain’s Reply

29 Corona Letter

30 Day I Temped for God

34 Empty Glasses

35 From the open note

38 Have a Good One

40 How Stupid to Write a Poem Tonight

41 Jump/Cut

43 Round Table Trivia Failure

44 Short Quiz*

45 Swans of Galway Bay

Contents

POETRY

62 Peter Desy Dying in Antarctica

63 Christina M. Olson At The Hurricane Name Retirement

Center

64 Sara Wernick For De’Andre, before his 8th grade graduation

67 Jennifer Lauren Collins Road Kill

68 Daniel Stewart Against Flight

70 Hedy Habra Is There Such a Thing?

72 Robert Hershbach Marina Tsvataeva

73 Malik Traditions Intermingled

75 Meg Shevenock Another Thing Not Owned by God

97 Kelley White Wife

99 Husband

101 Charles Jensen Lapsarian

103 John Whalen Bank Robber

104 Apology

105 Renato Rosaldo Pachucos All

107 J.V. Brummels Slant of Light

110 Cantos

ESSAYS

49 Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler Do Not Call Winter the

Beginning of Spring

56 Daikon Harvest

85 Kent Annan Three Scenes of Improbable

Vengence

Contents

ESSAYS

92 Dana Lise Shavin A Lesson in Astronomy

151 Diane Comer The Tribe of Solitaries

REVIEWS

173 Barbara Alvarado Holiday Rag: Not Just for Holidays

176 Carolina Monsivais The Memory of Myth

180 Josette Arvizu Soft Box Explores Flesh and the Family

185 Sara Cooper The Moon, the Rose, the Sea, the Seasons