In this Issue

Table of Contents

Contributors

pp. v-ix
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A Cloud and a Ghost Walk into a Bar, and: The Old Country, and: What My Poems Are About

Ryan Teitman
pp. 1-3
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The Simplest, Most Important Things

Yxta Maya Murray
pp. 4-20
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Greyhound

Ed Skoog
p. 21
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Abolition, and: Systema Naturae, and: Sonnet, and: Dad Poem

Joshua Bennett
pp. 22-27
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Earthenware

Asha Thanki
pp. 28-37
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Nineteen Sixty-Three: Year of the Rabbit, and: Observations of an Only Child

Katherine Yeejin Hur
pp. 38-39
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Mother, 1975

Lenore Myers
p. 40
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A Vision of Orpheus Descending, and: Eidólon

Paul Pickering
pp. 41-43
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To My Sister, on the Matter of Trees

Corrie Williamson
p. 44
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Harriet Point

Leslie Jones
pp. 45-61
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Portrait of an Ex-Lover as a Hillbilly Satyr, and: Remember the Meningitis Couch?

Anna Journey
pp. 62-65
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April 1, 2006

Fríɖa Ísberg, Larissa Kyzer
pp. 66-73
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Crossword: Celebrity Cryptids

Michael Griffith
pp. 74-78
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Inventory, and: Final Lesson on Love from My Mother and Father

Jim Whiteside
pp. 78-80
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Poem with Ice and Breakup, and: Three Versions

Bret Shepard
pp. 81-83
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Almost Blue

Julia B. Levine
pp. 84-85
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About the Artist and Lamentations

Tina Freeman
pp. 86-94
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Poem after Watching An Inconvenient Truth with My Students

Emma Bolden
p. 95
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Born Homesick

Bruce Cohen
pp. 96-97
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I’m Right Here. I’m Not Going Anywhere

Rumena Bužarovska, Steve Bradbury
pp. 98-112
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Circus, and: An Old Woman, and: Looking for Trouble

Charles Simic
pp. 113-115
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X & Death, and: X in the Tickseed, and: X at Seventy, a Walk in the Woods

Ed Falco
pp. 116-121
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In the Kingdom of Mice and Ants

J.D. Ho
pp. 122-123
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The Word You’re Looking For, and: Nocturne, and: Layered Pigments

Janice N. Harrington
pp. 124-128
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Bella

E. Thomas Jones
p. 129
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It Whitened and Stretched into Vastnesses

Virginia Lee Wood
pp. 130-141
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Long-Distance Call

Agnieszka Tworek
p. 142
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Saint Francis of the Bird Feeder

Robert Cording
p. 143
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I Watch a Documentary on Owl Theory and Become Convinced That Everyone I Love Will Be Killed by a Bird

Emily Nason
pp. 144-145
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notre-dame de paris

Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Nancy Naomi Carlson
pp. 146-147
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Shelter in Place

Michael Knight
pp. 148-160
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Prove, and: Foal, and: After the Divorce, I Think of Something My Daughter Said about Mars, and: Talisman

Maggie Smith
pp. 161-165
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