The Beauty of Shahid.......................................................................................... Karen Brennan 04

From "Mozart's Third Brain"..................................................... Göran Sonnevi, trans. Rika Lesser 06

At the Rehab Institute
For the First Clone, Aging Now and Largely Forgotten.................................................. Lucia Perillo 12

Auden at the Borders............................................................................................ Charles Berger 15

Pomes.................................................................................................................. Burton Raffel 26

Schematic............................................................................................................. Daniel Wolff 27

"Change of Clothes? The Very Clothes of Change!".................................................... Patty Seyburn 28

Under All Speech
Some Answers to the Protestant Ethic..................................................................... David Wagoner 30

An Argument.................................................................................................. Mark Wunderlich 31

Eclipse.............................................................................................................. David McGlynn 32

In Words....................................................................................................... Stuart Greenhouse 43

Neither Have We Only Heard and Never Seen
Nonesuch....................................................................................................... Richard Matthews 44

North Dakota Is Everywhere................................................................................. Andrew Epstein 46

Feeding the Fish at Hanauma Bay
S.E.T.I............................................................................................................... Marilynn Talal 47

Dichotomies
Burne-Jones, in the National Gallery,
Views The Arnolfini Marriage One Last Time............................................................ Nick Norwood 50

Nova Scotia Snapshot Lying on the
Sunday Times:"Defining Style".............................................................................. William Olsen 53

Ode on My Sharp Tongue................................................ ....................................Barbara Hamby 54

You Furze, Me Gorse............................................................................................ Sarah Hannah 56

the green dancers................................................................................................ Matt Robinson 57

Like Otos and Ephialtes
The Smell of a Widower............................................................................................. April Stoltz 58

Now and Then
Practical Immortalities........................................................................................ James Cummins 60

On the Verde River................................................................................................ Murray Bodo 65

Whistling to the Front
The Sculptor........................................................................................................ Joshua Green 66

Pull............................................................................................................. ......Vincent Precht 68

Elegy for a Cranberry......................................................................................... John McKernan 76

Mary Margaret's Last Day
The Lady and the Lizard
Ranger Roger, Thank You.................................................................................. Shawn Sturgeon 77

Movie Star Lies....................................................................................................... Colette Inez 79

Life and Art....................................................................................................... Amanda Turner 80

What Makes Us Happy............................................................................................ Joan Murray 82

The Soviet Circus Comes to Havana.......................................................................... Virgil Suárez 84

Self-Portrait
Sita
Nowtime
Kaisarion........................................................................................................... Monica Ferrell 92

All Work Is the Avoidance of Harder Work
Love Letter (Clouds)......................................................................................... Sarah Manguso 100

The Boy Who Fled the Shakers.............................................................................. Jordan Smith 102

The Most Handsome Man in the World...................................................................... Jamie Ross 104

Contributors........................................................................................................................ 105