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Issue #11 May 2012
House of Clouds | Song
Clouds float over Giudecca Island,
Meena Alexander
The Little Engine
He is not an engine that could. Busted up, broken and backward, call him “fucked-up,”
Rebecca Cook
He Was Amazed
He was amazed by the curve of his life. What he thought unique had made its arc like any other, as if life had
Stephen Dobyns
Home
Those last days in Hollywood—
Dana Goodyear
Impressionist
Once it was declared awful because it was brilliant
Jennifer Grotz
The Oklahoma Purchase
William Howard Taft wouldn’t drink before dark.
Brian Henry
36.
A woman was choked by a metal shackle
Louis Calaferte
Six Blessings and a Curse
Weigh odds. Pray. Pay bills.
Richard Kenney
For Night to Fall
You could tell from the start that the best
Carl Phillips
The Museum of Mortal Sins | Soul
We stood up to our waists in the icy water
Anzhelina Polonskaya
Honor Guard
Who does this body
D.A. Powell
Me Showering
I am showering, which isn’t much in itself
Alberto Rios