Autumn 2009

CONTENTS
 
ESSAYS
Cheryl Dietrich, “Decoding the Flag,” 341
Kelly Clink, “Self-Portraits,” 375
Margaret MacInnis, “Of Hearts,” 391
Anthony Aycock, “Deep Structure,” 399
Shannon Egan, “A Venus of Wild Nights: The Female Nude in Paintings by Judith Linhares,” 413
Ron Rindo, “Gyromancy,” 441
M. Elaine Mar, “Caesura,” 465
Cate Hennessey, “Shoveling Snow,” 491
 
FICTION
Randy F. Nelson, “The White Garden,” 359
Kelly Kathleen Ferguson, “The Law of Meat,” 425
Christopher Merkner, “In Lapland,” 455
Ron Parsons, “Big Blue,” 483
 
POETRY
Shirley Stephenson, “Tramp,” “Wade,” and “Zero-Dark-Thirty,” 351
Scott Brennan, “The Sea and Sardinia” and “Grey, Retiring,” 371
Caroline Finkelstein, “Postmodern,” “Poetic Emphasis,” and “Cockatrice,” 387
Tana Jean Welch, “‘Time is forever dividing itself toward innumerable futures and in one of them I am your enemy’” and “The First Husband Buried,” 396
Ralph Black, “Games that Crows Play” and “Infinitives,” 405
R. T. Smith, “Beyond the Crepe Myrtles, Blue Yodel,” 437
Mark Kraushaar, “The Uncertainty Principle” and “What It’s Like,” 438
Christopher Howell, “At Midnight,” “Dust to Dust,” and “Visitation,” 452
Nance Van Winckel, “Happy & Terrified When We Wake” and “I Wither under the Gaze,” 462
William Olsen, “Lake Leelanau Goes Still One Day in Fall,” 464
Katharine Jager, “The Agents of the Law” and “Recuperation and Recitation: The General Prologue,” 480
Eric Pankey, “The Passing Moment,” “Out-of-the-Body,” and “Venetian Light,” 488
John Whalen, “New Caledonia” and “Izambard, Home from the Capital,” 498
 
GRAPHICS
Judith Linhares, Paintings, 500