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Winter 2008

Poetry

Dean Brink
Alan Catlin
Jim Doss
Darrell Epp
Taylor Graham
Ken Gurney
Michelle Lerner
Michele Lesko
Lynn Lifshin
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Corey Mesler
Mitchell Metz
Bryan Mitschell
Maurice Oliver
Patty Paine
Jayne Pupek
Nic Sebastian
Shawn Sorensen
Lynn Strongin
Christy Tomecek

Flash Fiction

David Jordan
Richard Rippon
Jack Swenson

Featured Artist

Don Snell

Congratulations
2007 Pushcart Nominees:

Editors:

Jennifer VanBuren
Jai Britton
Patrick Carrington
Alex Nodopaka

Darrell Epp

Winter 2008

Revenge

it's a terrible thing to admit

but 9 times out of 10

it wasn't about 'making love'

it was about making a point, it was
about getting back at all those vague
preppy girls who had ignored me in
high school so many years ago

she'd ask me what i was thinking about

and i'd say nothing

or, alternately

the word 'nothing'

then she'd laugh and call me
a funny little monkey

and she'd be right,
just like always.

Zombie

legacies of her watermelon-
scented hair cling to these
walls even--wow, look at
that--five months after she
was last here or anywhere
near here, not much has
changed, i cleaned the
place up, it just got dirty
again, i still love staring
out this window from the
pedestrians right up to the
clouds, across the avenue
the same lime-colored
strobing neon trying to
hypnotize me, 4 nights out
of 7 i don't resist, i think
i'm entitled to a little some-
thing and oh here it comes
it's just like a warm bath.

Darrell Epp's poetry has appeared in over 30 magazines. His journalism has been translated into Spanish. He blogs at www.darrellepp.com