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Editor's Note   Jeffery Beam   A Letter to Paradise   Poetry   James Broughton   Advice to Poets Harry Gilonis   An Egg For E. Jay Bonner   Half Life Jonathan Williams   15 Metafours Debra Kaufman   Cages Aaron McCollough   The Costume Wedding Harry Gilonis   Remembering Scott Lafaro Giuseppe Ungaretti   Three Poems from "Il Dolore" Ricky Garni   Love Poems to Amy Billy Little   Sonnet E. Barnsley Brown   Twenty-Four Top Places to Fuck, by Dr. Seuss Romeo Z   Tantrix Jamal Lally   The Seal Charles Fort   What Had They Learned of the World George Elliot Clarke   Bio: Black Baptist/Bastard Gary McCullough   Taipei Quartours Florence Nash   Damascus Tony Tost   Stopping for Directions Ann McGarrell   Mediterraneo T. Marcellus   Nobody Andrea Selch   The Ballad of the Bee, or Queen Bee's Lament David Preece   Jonquil Airs Damion Higbie   When Lizzy Drowned Steve Campbell   Freshfields Will Inman   What's So James Broughton   Wheelchair in the Far West Thomas A. Clark   Grey Over Green Thomas Meyer   Voiles & Regatta Kenny Fries   Perspective & Autumn Cadenza Robert West   Starlight & Gnatsong Kevin Bezner   Listening To Music, Watching Gray Sky   Essays & Reviews   Jeffery Beam   Anthologies for Dinner Kevin Bezner   A Location Constantly Occurring Jeffery Beam   Read & Recommended M.A. Roberts   Michael McNeilley & Virgil Hervey Florence Nash   Margaret Rabb Robert West   Richard Tayson & Paul Dilsaver Kevin McGowin   Tom Waits Florence Nash   Lisa Williams   Contributors

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