Summer 2009
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
Julie Steiner
Don Shaeffer
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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Tony Leuzzi
Summer 2009
Now
For
years
when I
would have sex
with someone I would
think of having sex with someone
else, or of someone else having sex with someone else.
The
less
he was
and the less
I was the more we
disappeared behind bodies not
our own and became, in our writhing, anxious voyeurs.
But
now
with you
I can’t think
of anyone else.
Hell, I can’t think at all! Your skin
against mine, my flesh, your flesh, the immediate this.
Return
When
we
called it
quits that third
and last time, I swore
no amount of booze or games or
emptiness could entice me to your dark apartment.
But
there
at Rook’s,
where ghost-faced
loners bend before
their doubles, you whisper gin-soaked
nothings in my ear and run your hand along my thigh…
One
thing
leads to
another
and I’m back again
in your cramped rooms overlooking
empty streets, the tarred park, and, beyond, the black river.
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