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Spring 2008

Poetry

VanBuren's picks:

Antonia Clark
Brad Johnson
Dale McLain
Roger Pfingston
Richard Rippon

John Anderson
Cristina Baptista
Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
Michael Brownstein
Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Alison Eastley
Brent Fisk
David Fraser
Krikor der Hohannesian
Amy MacLennan
Lisa Markowitz
Damon McLaughlin
Micki Myers
Roger Pfingston
Heather Schimel
Rachel Stewart
Lafayette Wattles

Flash Fiction

On Debunking Modern Art

Alex Nodopaka

Pushcart Nominees

Editors

Jennifer VanBuren
Jai Britton
Patrick Carrington

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Siren

Singing is lonely,
but it’s what we do
to see the faces of sailors
change. They fall in love
with our throats and want
to give us everything,
to let us lick the tattoos
on their shoulders,
pluck their chest hairs
with our teeth.
 
This island is lonely
until we hear the splinter
and crack of a shipwreck
and run to the shore
to collect their wet bodies,
those smiling faces
of men who never suspected
that death would sound
so much like music,
that love would taste
like drowning.