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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

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Jai Britton
Patrick Carrington

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Howard Good

Fall 2007

LOVE IS AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN

Time is invisible, a patch of black ice,
the other car skidding stately toward us.

What do we do now? What can we?
We’re a blur of birthdays and anniversaries

and then gone, catapulted into the ocean of the sky.
Or maybe it’s true, there are no such things

as accidents, just choices, whether to love or not
the frenzy of sirens, the emergency road flares,

the volunteer fireman with the red face of a drunk
who impatiently waves his baton in the middle

of the intersection as if conducting an orchestra
only he and the shaken survivors can hear.

THE LANGUAGE OF INFINITE LONGING

Everyone always asks why I look so sad.
I could say it’s because

words wake up from a full night’s sleep still tired,
refuse to answer the phone after a certain hour,

set mischievous fires,

wear long sleeves even in summer to hide their scars,
become tangled like insects in the witch’s hair.

Why am I sad? Oh, God, why aren’t you?

Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004) and Heartland (2007), both from FootHills Publishing. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Right Hand Pointing, Stirring, The Flutter Poetry Journal, Why Vandalism?, Raving Dove, New Verse News, Eclectica, Persistent Image, Mad Swirl, The Flask Review, The Rose & Thorn, Juked, The Orange Room Review, and Lily. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2006.