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Issue #5 November 2011
The Ant’s Plunder
When I stuck out my hand to grab the iron door handle, a hidden ant attacked my right
Xi Chuan
My Heart in Evening
In the evening one hears the sharp shrieks of bats.
Georg Trakl
The Death of Erik Satie
The arches aspire to points
Ron Slate
Rare Moment
A clear choice
Lia Purpura
Three Fascinations
to wake to an alarm
Carol Moldaw
The Gone and the Going Away
The world I know keeps going farther
Maurice Manning
Tiger Story
Somewhere during my first or second year a tiger came into my life
Laird Hunt
An Oracle
Why does the line end sooner than the page?
Michael Collier
Home-Boys: Baby & Me (a Sapphic)
Ex-gang members. Driveby days over. Zero
Carol Muske-Dukes
from Landscapes on a Train
There once was a church. There once was a steeple. These things fall into
Cole Swensen
from “From Nothing”
One note, another, in the parlor’s angled light,
Daniel Tobin
News from Nowhere
The sea handles laundry
Fred D’Aguiar