March 2002

Emanuel de Witte, "Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft," 1650(?).

William Aarnes
Francesca Abbate
Aaron Baker
Annie Boutelle
Roger Caldwell

Table of Contents

From this Issue

Poem

Memorial

Royalty

"I gave birth to a princess," her mother
once told me, and I thought of my son pouring
his Grape-Nuts in the garage so as not to wake her,

of the moment her baby, seeing her
now a separate...

Beautiful Vacancy

Allison Funk
- Memorial
Lianne Spidel
- Royalty
J. P. White
- Beautiful Vacancy
Karen Craigo
- Escaped Housewife Prefers the Term Cosmetologist
Dannye Romine Powell
- Deprivation
Elisavietta Ritchie
- At Breakfast
- In the Midst of the Worst
William Aarnes
Connie Wanek
Robin Robertson
- Dream of the Huntress
Annie Boutelle
- 1863 Bodies
Roger Caldwell
- Auden at Kirchstetten
Kevin Meaux
- Bad Angels
Turner Cassity
- Why Geriatrics Are Not Sacrificed
Aaron Baker
- Highlands Mission
- Chimbu Wedding
Linda Gregerson
- Half Light
- Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft, with Open Grave
Thomas Pfau
- Thought
Francesca Abbate
- Unusually Warm March Day, Leading to Storms