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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Mather Schneider
Summer 2009
Bicycling Down Highway 101
This morning at the campground
I found a pair of women's panties
mixed in with my clothes in my pack.
Some girl must have forgotten them in the drier
at that last campground laundry
and I accidentally scooped them out with my load:
tiny black string panties
delicate as a spider's web in the early sun.
I was far from home, alone,
and I considered for a second:
I could tie them up on my handle bars
like dangling a carrot in front of a mule;
I could spend my trip searching
for the woman they belonged to
like Cinderella's slipper;
or perhaps I could don them myself
under my shorts to give me focus like that
half-wit pitcher in Bull Durham.
The rising sun snapped
me back to reality.
My withering morning fire
consumed the last sappy twig,
and I tossed the underthing
into the hungry flames.
With a virile grip they took
the flame inside them, burned with a hiss
of orgasm, and then finally to ashes
curling like toes.
The sky wore nothing but a negligee of smoke
and I stood there
undressing it with my eyes.
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