Contents
Fiction
5 Alan R. Wilson: 106 Fire Hydrants
20 Jody Ivanick: Don't Fall
28 John Webster: Starting out in Portland
37 John Castlebruy: Ecstacy of Virgil Williams
49 Anneliese Wagner: Room Without Board
72 Christopher McPherson: Johnny Fear and Debbie Dare
85 Anne Simpson: The Day Elvis Rose From the Dead
Poetry
18 John Donlan: Imperfect
19 Illuminations
25 Arthur Bull: Turkey Vultures
26 Fall Poem
27 October
31 Ken Norris: Winterfire
32 Rawdon Tomlinson: Miscarriage
34 Maureen Hynes: Rough Skin
36 Victoria McCabe: Sadie Alice
41 Gail McKay: Of Correspondences
42 Glen Willmott: Shore at Dusk
44 George Ellenbogen: The Outpost
47 Joelle S. Hann: Waitress drying Cutlery
48 Dish
59 John Watley: Museum Piece
63 Sue Chenette: For Brass Players
65 David Helwig: Sketch Book
68 LeRoy Gorman: Jocasta's Art
68 Aegeus the King
69 Jason & Medea get out of the city for a weekend
69 a dim and sunless place
74 Stella Body: Mennonite, seen from a crossroads
75 Husbandry
76 Bone Wisdom
77 Joe Dougherty: When April Exploded
78 And the Play Continued
79 Pool
80 Steven Heighton: Tonight . . .
80 Elegy for E.M.J.
82 Rhona McAdam: Apnea
82 Acupressure
84 Bonfires
98 David P. Reiter: Mr. Bond at the National Gallery
102 Yass, Not Canberra
Out of Place
89 Tim Lilburn: Contemplation and Cosmology
Review Articles
104 M. Travis Lane: Contemporary Concerns
The Woman on the Shore, Al Purdy
Luminous Emergencies, Mary di Michele
Nomadic Trajectory, Pasquale Verdicchio
112 Demetres Tryphonopoulos: Transformation and Mythopoesis
Gathering Fragments, Pentti Saaritsa
Not You, Not the Rain, Sirkka Turkka
117 Kent Thompson: Danish Relations
Double Danish: Contemporary Stories from Denmark, ed. and trans. Per Brask
122 Contributors
Art
Cover
Lynne Saintonge
In the Garden II, "In the morning we surface, breathless"
oil on canvas, 80x70 cm
17
Mary White
Winter
lithograph
70-71
Winter Vegies
inkwash on rice paper
97
Spring Bloom
woodcut
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