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Summer 2009

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Poetry and Flash Fiction

Abha Iyengar
Alison Eastley
Barton Smock
Bridget Gage-Dixon
Charles Reis
Cheryl Snell
Daniel Crocker
David Jordan
David Lawrence
Dennis Mahagin
Doug Ramspeck
Henry Louis Shifrin
John Sweet
Kathryn Jacobs
Lois P. Jones
Margaret Babbott
Mather Schneider
Richard Lighthouse
Roger Pfingston
Roy Lewis
Simon Perchik
Tim Kahl
Tony Leuzzi

Featured Artists
Julie Steiner
Don Shaeffer

Steiner Interview
by Alex Nodopaka

Editors

Jennifer VanBuren
Jai Britton
Alex Nodopaka
Patrick Carrington

Mannequin Envy in memory of poet and artist Douglas Gamrath

David Lawrence

Summer 2009

TREE

I’d like to build a house out of your legs.
You could hold me as high as an intrusion
Or as ineluctable as fate.
Listen to the log.
I hear termites eating wood.
I miss your withdrawals and the cold turkeys
Of emotion running out of your veins.
I am addicted to rejection.
It’s love in an Easter basket and resurrection
In a clam.
I like the train grass and the foil.
I like to wrap the eggs in shreds of green
Cellophane.

"I've published over five hundred poems. My last book was "Lane Changes" by Four Way Books."

Julie Lawrence Limbs-Birds

Deadline for Consideration in Fall 2009: September 1.

We accept submissions all year long, however, we read them only during the month before publication, so please do not get upset if you do not hear from us right away.