Winter 2017 | 66.2
AMANDA PAULEY
Driver, No Seatbelt | 14
JAMES BARNETT
The Causeway | 34
ABBY ROSENTHAL
Stall | 52
DICK BENTLEY
Bad Behavior | 92
LOUISE MARBURG
Betty Ford | 94
POETRY
JUDE BRANCHEAU
Double Dare | 9
DOUG RAMSPECK
Wind Songs | 10
Map of the Original World | 11
MATTHEW VALADES
The Snapping Turtle | 12
JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS
Inbetweenness | 42
Like something meant to be Looked Back on, Fondly | 43
Map of Heaven | 44
To Have and to Hold | 45
JENNIFER NEWHOUSE
Even in the Desert | 78
The Commuter’s Wife | 79
R.T. SMITH
Living Water | 80
Lure | 83
Miss Beverly Loverly on Graveyard Shift at the Old 280 Alamo | 85
Duet | 88
Zsa Zsa Fais Do-do | 90
T.J. MCLEMORE
Love Poem: Suspension | 109
Allegory of the Fence | 110
The Tie Post | 111
MARTA KOWALEWSKA
Tonight he will make me an American | 112
There Will Be No Suicides | 113
The Last Time | 114
MIMI HERMAN
In that Place | 115
High Tea | 116
Gratitude for Small Things | 117
GUSTAVO PÉREZ FIRMAT
No Country for Dirty Old Men | 118
Dirty Old Man at the Outer Banks | 119
Dirty Old Man Throws Caution to the Winds | 120
MALA GAONKAR
Swayamvaram | 46
LOIS RUSKAI MELINA
The Fires of Dismemberment | 106
ART
AIMEE BUNGARD
Artist’s Statement | 64
Nut | 65
Anne | 66
Uncle | 67
New Growth | 68
Brushing | 69
Bunbun | 70
Whisper | 71
Seed | 72
This Succulents | 73
Unfurl | 74
She | 75
Pod | 76
Sprite | 77
REVIEW
ANNEKE SCHWOB
The Folly of Loving Life by Monica Drake | 121
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