Volume 18 (Fall 2009) All files are in Portable Document Format (PDF). View the entire issue. Contributor notes are printed at the ends of the authors' selections in this issue. To view an individual author's selection(s), click the contributor's name: Pamela Standridge Allen Cover art. Robert B. Shaw Fountain Pen Poetry The Children Working Out: Ten Epigrams In the Picture River and Road Old Man of the Mountain Single File Paul Watsky Hell Hath No Windows Richard Wilbur Out Here Leslie Ullman Mind in Spite of Itself Rachel Hadas Seascape The Trickle The Spill 1971; 2008 Leigh Holland Trapnest Richard Foerster A Tropic Wave Savasana Niagara Alan Sullivan A Walk in the Rain Daniel Tobin Airs for a Needle's Eye Loren Graham selection from The Ring Scar Sonnets & Anti-sonnets Imaginary Conversations Don and Emmy six months after their separation The Transformed before the separation Strange City before the separation and after Charles Martin On a Roman Perfume Bottle A Late Correction Charles Rose Remembering Andrew Lytle Armine Iknadossian Father after Surgery Beirut Blues Catharine Savage Brosman Winter Sunset, Pike's Peak On the North Side Dorothy Howe Brooks The Thanksgiving Tree David Mason How He Sleeps We James B. Nicola Night Snow John Poch The Missing Child Matthew Smith For the Highway Medians On Being Naked Rhina P. Espaillat Little Red Hen "Things That Go" The Wolf Peacock Constantine Contogenis At Nine Their Beginning Ithaka Claire Millikin Rite Half-House Plastic H. L. Hix How would you change your life if you could? Do you believe in ghosts? Jeffrey Talmadge Nijmegen Juleigh Howard-Hobson Garden Truth Maryann Corbett Paperboy Stephen Cushman Some Harmless Heresy Home Maintenance Richard Freis Patrick O'Brian and the Art of Fiction Robert Schechter Thank-You Note from Proverbs and Songs Antonio Machado Blind Man after Jorge Luis Borges |