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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

Matt Alberhasky
Margaret Fieland
Robert Johnson
Willie Smith



On Debunking Modern Art

Alex Nodopaka


Pushcart Nominees

Editors

Jennifer VanBuren
Jai Britton
Patrick Carrington


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Maureen Tolman Flannery

 

Tether

She was his picket-pin
and he was free to roam
in a radius as wide
as the rope that tied
his left leg
to the cold metal stake
of her heart.


Unidentified Body

Some grand possibility reduced
like an improper fraction,
he lay nameless
with his closed options open
and his shame exposed,
awaiting his last bath,
clothes that never suited him,
and good-byes of those
who never said hello.

Maureen Tolman Flannery