..:: CONTENTS ::..

..:: POETRY ::..
Adam Fieled
  Sarah Israel
Johannes Finke
  Documents etc. do not balance out
  Hardcore angel
  Recording, Melancholy
Dan Fisher
  from Fugue Report
Jenny Gillespie
  Burn
  Personal Forest
Thomas Hibbard
  KOURASAN
  BAD GUY
  RUBBLE
Claudia Keelan
  Little Elegies (Vietnam) 
  Little Elegies (cummingsworth)
  Little Elegies (Self and Other)
David Krump
  The Nine Day Ricochet
  Backsling in the Hickories
  C(harm
Tom Leonard
  suite On the Page
Christopher Mulrooney
  Continental System
Rochelle Ratner
  Date-a-Dog
  Jealous Lover Program Creator Is Indicted
  MUTT AND JEFF AT ALCATRAZ
  Testing
  California Inmate Seeks Release of Stuffed Dog
  Piggy Banks
Dennis Somera
  Earl Lee s. alvation jane=Paterson's curse s.v. Paterson;
  sweet ana lack to es
  Pleas
Stephanie Young
  UPPER MODERATION
  IN TWENTY DAYS I WILL BE THIRTY

..:: PROSE ::..
Douglas Cole
  Ghost
Laura Davis
  Touched
Mandy Kalish
  On the Fourth Pull
William Moor
  Four Robot Recognitions

..:: REVIEWS ::..
Jeremy James Thompson
  Joan Retallack, Memnoir
Sarah Trott
  Stephanie Young, Telling the Future Off
Sara Wintz
  Various, lunapark 0,10

..:: ETC ::..
  Contributor's Notes
  Legals
 

..:: ARCHIVES ::..
  Volume I, Issue I
  Volume I, Issue II
  Volume II, Issue I

 


C(harm
David Krump

     

a boy ( take it easy he’s just ( as
a boy ( thought all girls +good+ +magic+
this coupled well with my corruptabilities,

named them sky, imagined any moon
could shortly, a sort of falling off in ( to go it knowing
averaging charm one, but charm too hungers.

.

[I’ve checked the Yes box—they’re to send me
the latest information on falcate and fringe]

.

—old dictionary and he had left it, a gift from
a dead friend, on the back porch for two days
averaging rain.  Said it made the language grow and
gargoyle in the sewer, chancellor, like the secret pain
of rats.

—is pretty ? on the shore of the river, yestering
the blind conductor in, an immersion, dictionary
thrown in the Mississippi, probably in New Orleans
by now.   Now that the river knows how, now what?

River1 says,
If I can hold ghosts, I can hold you.  If I can can ever,
I can can for before it, and, kin, can you?

A boy ) just kid ) you ) not.
Can you, Forget-me-not, ever forgive me?
F-m-n answers in the back of the book.
Back of the book.
can, cen, cin, con, cun, cyn = (nice, nu, car, canny, con)
                                                  +                 (2c+ , ) – a


how you know to pale brightly under clouds
arriving in form’s disfigured soldiers figure
a thousand years a thousand years a thousand and
the ocean so quiet with his mouth full of white houses
    

 

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