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Issue #64 November 2016

  • CROYLAND ABBEY

    irrigation or exit

  • BRAINS | ECLIPSE

    You didn’t have any

  • The Old Pythagorean | Wish You Were Here

    The Scottish sheep farmer John Williamson espoused the Pythagorean doctrine of metempsychosis, which held that

  • Curriculum Vitae | Ode to Silo City

    I’ll keep the ululating

  • GDR CHINA | LAMB

    My housekeeper had the dishes brought

  • Listen Up  Medusa | Personal Narrative

    Seduced by your statuesque

  • Sometimes,

    I’ll crumple the paper before beginning to write

  • WOMAN CAVE | MODERN ORIGAMI

    Even at my most primitive

  • Anti-Gravity Time Machine

    From the front stoop it’s the 21st century;

  • Brian Swann: “I THINK I WOULD RATHER BE/ A PAINTER”

    “I THINK I WOULD RATHER BE/ A PAINTER” The short essay “Poem and Prose-Poem: Ancient and Wild” needs no introduction.…

    Featured Selection

  • Linda Ashok: Letter from India: Worshiping the Stone Manasa

    Letter from India: Worshipping the Stone Manasa   I remember my father at 21, being hounded by the police for…

    Essays and Comment

  • Editor’s Note

    November: and just back from a trip home to Louisville, where I met my cousin B—, come to visit my…

    Editors Note

  • What’s Real? | Is Nothing Sacred Anymore?

    This question didn’t much interest me

  • JANUARY

    This longing for him the choke in my throat again —

  • Mark Yakich: Poetry: A Survivor’s Guide

    Metaphor is a form of illness. Sometimes writers ought to clothe rather than bare their souls. If we don’t know…

    Book Review