TABLE OF CONTENTS 

POETRY

Near death by Brent Fisk You see everyone gather. They drink wine / until they break the dangling lights...	Sound Pollution of Choice by John Scott An old man sits on the deck at the back of his house. / From a stereo inside, the sound of...
Slicing Onions by Antonia Clark I watch the knife / like a lover...	Xylophone by Howie Good What you’ve heard is true – / cats go off by themselves to die...

 

FICTION

Gentian blue
by Sarah Hilary
Just after noon, we take the foot-path up into the fields. The day is hot, the village frowsy with hollyhocks and bunting...

The Man of Jerusalem
by Charles Lennox
The man reads a book. Something culled from the public library. Or
purchased on a whim in the world’s last remaining bookstore. Or taken
off the dusty...

 

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Revisionist History of How
by Amy Lee Scott
When the Spanish conquistadores arrived at a then unnamed peninsula,
they felt confident.  They had already “found” Asia, established forts
and slavery on various islands, and slapped together...

 

ARTWORK

by Meredith L. Prévot
Soubise I
Soubise II
Soubise III
Soubise V
Soubise VI
Patterns appear throughout the history of visual art.  It is on printed or woven cloth that these patterns are most ubiquitous...