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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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Craig Kirshner

winter 06

Hermitage

Crows busy with unworked seed
laugh and leave toward evening

as leaves of fall, fast-forwarded,
turn red like blood fingering across
the green linoleum kitchen floor
after the thud of the back of your head
split like a too-ripe pumpkin.

The trees in the yard mourn the wood
you’d stacked anticipating winter

as it dries, rots, quietly decays
and Aprils later splinters and skips off

across tan, fallow fields
in a cold wind wet
with the rustle of black wings.

Craig Kirschner