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Fall 2007
John Amen
Kathy Babcock
Kate Benedict
Jeff Calhoun
Howard Good
Kenneth Gurney
Sarah Jordan
Lynn Levin
Alex Grant
Tim Mayo
PJ Nights
Tim Peeler
Cati Porter
Doug Ramspeck
John Repp
Bill Roberts
RL Swihart
Spencer Troxell
Kelley White
Teresa White
Mike Estabrook
David Jordan
Kelly Mandryk-Layne
Willie Smith
Matthew Rounsville
Back by popular demand:See most pages of poetry for her photos,as well as her artist's page from the summer issue.
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Tim Peeler
Fall 2007
Communique
Dad for your birthday
they are opening a
new age punk vampire movie
with young sexy heroes
in heroin addict makeup.
The news-scape is all noir
as well: bearded confessors,
long faced big toothed women,
crazed ex-lawyers in
designer reading glasses.
I am happy to report there is
nothing in the brave blue sky
to save us from except for
the face down cards and fingers
that can’t wait to turn them.
Dad for your birthday
I am going to see
your unhappy grandson*
the red headed one that got
your brain without the filter.
But I am the one
talking to the dead,
who misses the hanging curve
of childhood, the cracked up
getting by on nothing years.
And it is I who will pause
to click a glass
against the dark heavens
and drink the singular
unholy communion.
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