FEATURES

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

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

ROSEBUZZZ................................................................................ 9

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER by Rod Clark............................................... 127

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

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

SWIRLING BURROS

THE STRIKEOUT KING by Jean L. Mulroney........................................ 12

THE DRAGON OF SOUTHERN AVENUE by Sue William Silverman........... 16

WHEN I WAS COOL by Sam Kashner.................................................. 20

SAID THE ELEPHANT TO THE DONKEY by Jay Hammond...................... 27

CLEAN HANDS

MEETING SADDAM by Paul Hamell................................................... 29

THE CENTER OF THE WORLD by George Eastburn............................... 32

GILGAMESH by Valerie Frankel.......................................................... 37

RUE AMERICAN by Ron Czerwien..................................................... 39

FINCH AND WARBLER by Ron Czerwien............................................ 40

BURIED IN THE 1980s by Jeff Lucas.................................................... 41

GEOGRAPHY by Kevin Simmonds...................................................... 45

A LEGACY by Glen Cavaliero............................................................ 46

ONE NOTE by J. L. Kubicek............................................................. 47

ANNA WICKHAM: A POET’S DARING LIFE by Jennifer Vaughan Jones....... 48

THERE’S PROOF

BOAT PEOPLE by Arthur Gottlieb...................................................... 58

ZULUS IN NEW YORK by Anis Shivani................................................ 59

LAST OF HIS KIND by Sandra McDonald............................................. 60

EXPLAINING. THE FLIGHT OF BATS TO SOMEONE WHO RARELY FLIRTS

WITH DANGER by M.J.Iuppa .......................................................... 66

BECAUSE IF THINGS ARE NOT CAREFULLY HIDDEN by Roy Bentley....... 67

A GOOD MAN by Natali Petricic....................................................... 68

BROOKLYN by J.E. Robinson............................................................ 73

THE COAST by Catherine Turner....................................................... 79

SAINT-MIHIEL 1918 by Stephen B. Wiley.............................................. 80

DISCOVERY

NEW DISCOVERY WINNERS........................................................... 81

MAKING THE FIRST CUT by John Lehman........................................... 82

HOW TIME WORKS by R. Russell...................................................... 83

LILLY MAKES AN A by Sandra Dorr.................................................... 84

DISSOLUTION by F.J. Bergmann..........................................................85

OCTOBER by R. Russell......................................................................86

MARRIED LIFE by Candace A. Hennekens............................................87

ONE SHOT IN THE AIR

THE WHITE HILLS OF DENALI by John E. Smelcer................................ 89

TAKING DAVEY by Barbara Westwood Diehl......................................... 92

EL OTRO LADO / THE OTHER SIDE by Suzanne LaFetra........................ 95

THE SHADE by Gregory Miller.......................................................... 102

THE WAY MY HAND MOVES WHEN I DRAW by Stevan Allred................. 103

THE PORTRAITS IN THE CELLAR by Frances McCarthy......................... 107

EASTER SUNDAY by Louis Gallo....................................................... 113

DISCOVERED by Allan Peterson........................................................ 114

LOST DOG by Larry Gaffney............................................................ 115

VOLO BOG by Jane Richards............................................................ 122

BLUE MOON by Monique Gagnon..................................................... 126