Fall/Winter 2009-10
tom oristaglio
scott summers
cindy childress
tom rechtin
james b. nicola
debra rymer
doug draime
corey mesler
rebecca schumejda
chris crittenden
arlene ang
joey nicoletti
brad johnson
lorie allred
elizabeth kay
alexander russo
nissa lee
kenneth gurney
jessi lee gaylord
keith brighouse
ajay vishwanathan
ethel rohan
william "cully" bryant
julie steiner
Steiner Interview
by Alex Nodopaka
Jennifer VanBuren
Jai Britton
Alex Nodopaka
Patrick Carrington
Mannequin Envy in memory of poet and artist Douglas Gamrath
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Mather Schneider
Summer 2009
Bicycling Down Highway 101
This morning at the campground
I found a pair of women's panties
mixed in with my clothes in my pack.
Some girl must have forgotten them in the drier
at that last campground laundry
and I accidentally scooped them out with my load:
tiny black string panties
delicate as a spider's web in the early sun.
I was far from home, alone,
and I considered for a second:
I could tie them up on my handle bars
like dangling a carrot in front of a mule;
I could spend my trip searching
for the woman they belonged to
like Cinderella's slipper;
or perhaps I could don them myself
under my shorts to give me focus like that
half-wit pitcher in Bull Durham.
The rising sun snapped
me back to reality.
My withering morning fire
consumed the last sappy twig,
and I tossed the underthing
into the hungry flames.
With a virile grip they took
the flame inside them, burned with a hiss
of orgasm, and then finally to ashes
curling like toes.
The sky wore nothing but a negligee of smoke
and I stood there
undressing it with my eyes.
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"I am a cab driver in Tucson living with a Mexican girl and trying to learn Spanish. I have a book coming out by Interior Noise Press very soon." |
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