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Fall 2009

 

 


Lines of Thought


Letter to a Companion Star
Kelli Russell Agodon

February 29
Liz Ahl

Downwind
Elena Alexander

Friend
Indran Amirthanayagam

One Minute Before Midnight
L. S. Asekoff

Haunted Villanelle
Renée Ashley

The Old Machinery
Ros Barber

Cryogenius
Ros Barber

Chance
Ros Barber

Walking North from the River Clyde
Rachel Bennett

The Library Basement
Rachel Bennett

Dark Botany
Lorna Knowles Blake

Caracole
Lorna Knowles Blake

Saving Billy Collins from Drowning
Mary Legato Brownell

Socks
Susana H. Case

Life Model
Cortney Davis

Wraith in the Checkout Line
Graham Duncan

A Theory of (Nearly) Everything
Graham Duncan

About Doors
Graham Duncan

These Are the Days of Wrenching Our Backs
David Graham

The Cellist
Elizabeth Haukaas

Wild Dogs
Marilyn Johnson

A Heart That Dances
William Jolliff

My Cousin Janie Sue's
Almost-Husband Harald
Achieves Sainthood
in Grandma's Front Parlor

William Jolliff







(On Not) Believing in an Afterlife
Deena Linett

Winter
Deena Linett

Solitude in Words
P. H. Liotta

Because You Could
P. H. Liotta

Ants Want My Dead Yellow Moth
Cleopatra Mathis

Disguise
Cleopatra Mathis

Predator
Cleopatra Mathis

A Life of Zero
John Minczeski

This Zero
John Minczeski

Nest of the Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Madeleine Mysko

Theft
Madeleine Mysko

Hematoma
Madeleine Mysko

The Old Order
Michael Palma

Doormat
Michael Palma

Anobium Punctatum
Andrea Porter

Harbour
Andrea Porter

Robins in January
Jack Ridl

A Blip Still Now and Then
M. A. Schaffner

Barker
Elaine Sexton

As They De-ice the Wings
Elaine Sexton

Child and Moon
Maria Terrone

Giraffes, Once Dismissed as Mute
Maria Terrone

Dinner Theatre
Lee Upton

When I Came to the Table
Lee Upton

Notes to Yourself
Jeanne Murray Walker

Mobile: Study of Children with Escape in Mind
Jeanne Murray Walker

Baking Cupcakes
Alison Woods