features

Letters from Readers 4
VOICE OVER by Rod Clark 5
ROSEBUZZZ 10
GO FIGURE by P. S. Mueller 132

on the glider

A SONG FOR JUNE JORDAN By Nikki Giovanni 12
CRIASKEW’S FAMILY By Nikki Giovanni 14
HOTEL ROOMS By Nikki Giovanni 15
LOOKING FOR PLUTO By Robert Cormack 16
AFTER THE DIVORCE By Jewel Kilcher 22
SUPERHEROES By Bennett Zamoff 23
IN MEMORY OF EMILY By Diana Raab 27
A DEEPER QUIET, THEN SILENCE By Wally Swist 28
WAKE ME EXTRA CRISP By Veronica Yates 29

no one I know

DEATH ROLL By Kevin Brown 31
CERTAIN GIRLS By Tara Cottrell and Vicky Mlyniec 36
THE MANAGER By Diane Goodman 40
BIG JIM’S WINTER DREAM By Kevin Egan 52
MY PRISON By Saint James Harris Wood 58
NEW MEXICO By Anne McGovern 59
IT’S NEVER TOO LATE By Donna Morris 60
DANCING WITH LIBERACE By Tess Thompson 64
ACCOMPLICES TO A TRADITION By Jeff Fearnside 68

warm shredded prey

KOSINSKI By Chayym Zeldis 73
NATIVE By Paulann Petersen 78
LAST WORDS By Mary Soon Lee 79
S O L I P S I S M By E. Louise Beach 80
HAWK By Larry D. Thomas 81
BURNING By Margaret Karmazin 82
RAPE By Kristin Henry 86
CHALK LINE By Carl L. Williams 87

ride the jaguar

THE MUSEUM OF LOST LANGUAGE By Bill Capossere 91
THE MUSEUM OF LAMENTATION By Bill Capossere 95
THE MUSEUM OF LOST AND FOUND By Bill Capossere 97
THE MUSEUM OF OBSOLETE COLORS By Bill Capossere 99
THE MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING By Paul E. Martens 101
SOMEDAY By Sandy Blanchard 105
NIGHT SONG By George Staehle 106
GROUND WATER By Allen Fischer 107
MONSIEUR LAPIN By Kathleen J. Stowe 108

directly from heaven

STORM DAMAGE By Michele Ruby 112
CLEAVAGE By Stevan Allred 120
COPYEDITING SHAKESPEARE By Thomas Christensen 127
HAIKU LITERARY REVIEW By Richard Marino 130