Table of Contents
Through a Glass Darkly; Untimeliness, poemsLaurence GoldsteinThe 17-Year-Old Locust; The God of Variables Laments; Neither/Nor; Yesteryear; The Goddess of Quotas Laments, poemsYusef KomunyakaaParagraphs from a Day-Book, poemMarilyn HackerSecond Retreat: Knife-Sharpening at Vajrapani, poemPeter Dale ScottInterior: The Kill, poemCarl PhillipsDogs, poemMarcus CafagñaShibusa, storyMary Yukari WatersTusk, storyAnupa Anjali SrinivasanEvents Leading to the Conception of Solomon, the Wise Child, poemDannie AbseMarried Love, poemMark RudmanStalky the Clown, storyIra SadoffSweet, storyEdward FalcoSpeed Bump, storyStephen DixonCrawfordsville Confidential, poemG. E. MurrayA Door; Geraniums, poemsAnn TownsendLanguage of Departure; Rochester, poemsPeter CooleyTo a Friend Who Concedes Nothing; Home; The Lesson, poemsPaul BreslinSculpture; Fire-Eater, poemsCharles RaffertyTeatro Natura, poemRicardo Pau-LlosaThe Woman Who Wanted to be Loved, poemJayanta MahapatraHypatia; In No Mood, poemRachel LevineBloodknots, storyAmi Sands BrodoffSummer Party, storyPatricia LearThin End of the Wedge, storyWilliam LychackRadical Neck, poemBob HicokLast Things; Moths, poemsRobert CordingThe Woman with Gravitas; Claims of the Past; The Unlived; The Bodily Beautiful; Eulogy for a Private Man; Two Sketches of Solitude, poemsFred DringsThe Impossibility of Language, poemBeth Ann FennellyThe Butter Knife God; The God of Pepper; No Fool, the God of Salt, poemsAlan Michael ParkerDusk; Resurrection, poemsDaniel HalpernThe Nest, poemTom WaymanFigures on a Human Scale, poemTimothy LiuHatred; The Turn of the Century, poemsWisława Szymborskatranslated from the Polish by Joanna Trzeciak and Marek LugowskiChildren of the Holocaust, essayGabriel MotolaShubshi-meshre-Shakkan, poemAdapted-Rendered by David FerryContributors