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Editor's Notes

Defying Gravity.....................................Kelly Jones 97

Oysters on the Half Shell
Partial Paralysis
Man with a Horse's Head
A Bedroom near the Sky
Wedding ........................................Kate Rosenberg 105

Helen Keller and the Mind's Eyewitness.......... Jodi Cressman 108

Fear Told Tranquil...........................Jennifer Franklin 124
Sunset Boulevard.................................Paul Stephens 126
The Soul in Its Flight...........................Karen Brennan 127
Dulce de Leche................................ Kathleen Peirce 138
Home Is a Darksome Place to Leave.............. Shawn Sturgeon 139
The American Hop Hombeam.......................... Alfred Corn 140
The Switch...................................... Stephen Dixon 142
Elegy.............................................. Kyla Bynum 155

Anchises, Aeneas, Ascanius
Ceremony and Coda
How I Came to Lose You Before
We'd Even Met............................. Cassandra Cleghorn 156

Phone Call from High School.................. Cathleen Calbert 159
The Crucifixion.............................. Eugene Schlanger 160
Listening to the Big Bands on New Year's Eve.... Maura Stanton 162
Boys Keep Being Born............................... Joan Frank 164
The Wind and the Rain........................ Max Avery Fierst 173
Hans Baldung Green............................. Monica Ferrell 174
Nocturne........................................ Averill Curdy 176
Borderline Ash............................... Phillip Sterling 178
Canyon of Pavement, Whisper of Grass............ Joanna Howard 180
Anniversary,1950-2000......................... Philip Appleman 184
The Atheist..................................... Robert Devlin 186
Flame Paper
Summer Chapels.................................. Julie Sheehan 187

Contributors Notes