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Summer 2007

Caroline Albert
Donna Dixon
Shara Faskowitz
Adrian Heathcote
Stephen Mead
Michelle Morgan

Spring 2007

Featured Artist:
Jennifer Balkan

Poetry:
Michelle Augello-Page
Bob Bradshaw
Traci Brimhall
Wayne Crawford
Susan J. Cronin
Mark Cunningham
Patricia Gomes
Michael Estabrook
Charles Adés Fishman
Taylor Graham
Alex Grant
Michael Keshigian
Malaika King Albrecht
Douglas Korb
Eileen Malone
Kristine Ong Muslim
Simon Perchik
Alifair Skebe
Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Renate Wildermuth

Flash Fiction
David Gaffney
Willie Smith
Mark John Hiemstra

In Memory:
Douglas Gamrath
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"Trim" Mannequin Envy's first print anthology

Kristine Ong Muslim

Dream elements from parcel #6

All the forgotten roadkill
chase you to the ends of the earth.
And because the planet is round,
the hunt follows a circular path.

Portrait of a Dyslexic

Her pain is a love poem,
her song, part-silence, part-scream.
She is as harmless as a schoolboy's
act of gnawing at a pencil stub.

Undisturbed by the natural pattern
of migrations, the death of prom queens,
she sometimes stifles her breath while
staring at words--condensing, out
of focus yet always there--
a momentary lapse, which follows
the direction of the avalanche.

Kristine Ong Muslim's poems and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in many places. These include Bellevue Literary Review, Chronogram, Cordite, elimae, The Pedestal Magazine, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, T-Zero, and Turnrow. Her publication history: blackroom8