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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

Mark Cunningham

Bald Eagle

Telly Savalas or Isaac Hayes I’m not, though men on both sides of my family tend to be bald by thirty. I’m not even to the comb-over stage. The next-to-last woman (four years ago) clenched and hissed when I had to use two fingers to reach in and find the shucked condom: her first time. I should take lessons from the masters: Allen Ginsberg cleaned up with a haircut that makes Larry of The Three Stooges look debonair. That was in the sixties, though, and Allen was gay. The last woman (two years ago; I was number 27) hooked her left foot around my right calf and I tried not to get thrown. I could try the shaved-head, sit-pecking-a-laptop-in-a-coffee-shop look, but I can’t even afford a Hustler, let alone a laptop. America, I have $6.73, and you can’t have a dime.

I have poems in recent issues of Alice Blue and Dusie, and chapbooks on the Mudlark site (2002) and the Right Hand Pointing site (2006). Tarpaulin Sky Press will be bringing out a book tentatively titled Body Language, which will be a sort of diptych containing two separate collections, one titled Body (on parts of the body) and one titled Primer (on numbers and letters).

"Fueled" by Jennifer Balkan