Volume 18 (Fall 2009)

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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