Issue Three: Spring 2009

CYNTHIA HELEN BEECHER	A Poem for Mrs. A’s Birthday
CRISPIN BEST	your five-year plan
BEN BROOKS	Can’t stop, Won’t stop
JESSECA CORNELSON	Savor This [At Night the Shipyard Boys Carry Bottles] Ex-Forest Service Worker Must Pay $14.7M
SHOME DASGUPTA	Our Skin
JOEL JAMES DAVIS	Welding Dress (& then, after this, all the children rise up)
ERIK ESTABROOK	Freshly Bloomed
STEFANIE FREELE	The Flowers Smell Purple
DIANE HEIGHT	The Girl and the Butterfly
KYLE HEMMINGS	Be[tween a Railroad and a Hard Place]
DEAN LAWSON	The Palace of Nansi
CHRISTOPHER LOCKE	Sunday, Mid-April
DONAL MAHONEY	Cops and Robbers
KARLA LINN MERRIFIELD	The Arousal of Spring
b.l. pawelek	the sun no longer shines watching the roses grow
BEN PINCUS	En Flagrante
BARRY POMEROY	The Dark Woods
SARAH SARAI	And What If
PETER SCHWARTZ	nostrum
BEN SEGAL	Tender Is a Nice Way of Describing Meat
STEPHANIE SESIC	Ashes to Ocean
GREGORY TAGUE	Noah’s Lost Elephants
ANDREW TAYLOR	Do You Like the Pretty Blossom? Coastal Poem Ribes, Narcissi, Broom and Barberry
BLYTHE WINSLOW	Just Yellow and Green, Issue Three’s Cover Image