FEATURES

Letters from Readers......................................................................4

VOICE OVER by Rod Clark.............................................................5

ROSEBUZZZ..................................................................................10

INTRODUCING WORDZ.................................................................47

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER by Rod Clark............................................126

GO FIGURE by P. S. Mueller...........................................................131

CROSSWORD by Melanie Werth.....................................................136

SMALL PLEASURES

A GEOGRAPHY OF SNOW by Anthony Bukoski..............................14

AFTER YOU’VE GONE by Paul Clayton...........................................24

THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK by Mimi Herman...............................27

I WISH YOU LOVE by Julie Cook...................................................32

A TRAVELING MAN by Anne Burgess.............................................36

YOU ARE THERE!

THINKING ABOUT LOVE AT 3 A.M. by Delisa Mulkey.....................41

BORDERLINE by Susan J. Fuller....................................................42

DANCING WITH THELONIUS by Bard Young..................................43

REFRAIN by Mike White................................................................48

THE BLOOD STOLEN

IN THE COTTON FIELDS by Fabu Mogaka.....................................50

THE GEISHA’S GRANDDAUGHTER by Chayym Zeldis.....................51

THE DIGGING by Sandra Beauchamp-Karns....................................56

STAFFORD POETRY AWARD by R. Virgil Ellis..................................57

KEEPING UP WITH THE MACBETHS by Kenneth Brady..................60

LA GRANDE HORIZONTALE by Suzanne Nielson............................64

TWO POEMS by Chinua Achebe.....................................................65

HURRY, SAVE US

YOU by Chris Fox..........................................................................70

THE INNOCENT AND THE DEAD by Jeanne Klaver........................71

A TRYPTICH FOR WILLIAM STAFFORD by David Ray.....................77

THE MOMENT by J. Mae Barizo.....................................................80

QUATRAIN FOR THE CAPE IN APRIL by Kate Nardin......................81

BOOLEAN MATH by Marc J. Straus...............................................82

PERFECT by John Randolph Carter.................................................83

THE GROWTH OF A MIND

A POSTCARD MEMOIR by Lawrence Sutin......................................85

THE PROMISED LAND

WIND FARMS by Leonard Orr........................................................103

MY OMNIPOTENT HANUMAN GOD by Raghbir and Doris Dhillon 104

THE GATEMAN by David Scribner..................................................110

BIGFOOTING by Benjamin Percy....................................................113

COMMUNION by Mathew Frank.....................................................116

BATHING LUANG PU KHAAW by Craig Stevaux..............................117