Issue 2

September 2009

Table of Contents

Editor: O.P.W. Fredericks

Assistant Editor: Daniel Milbo

Cover Photo © 2006 Daniel Milbo

Design Layout and Graphics © 2009 Touch: The Journal of Healing

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . O.P.W. Fredericks & Daniel Milbo

Editor's Choice: A voice of Touch . . . . . . . . . . O.P.W. Fredericks

Poetry

. . . with birth as condition . . .   . . . . . . . . . . Murray Alfredson

Door Card . . . . . . . . . . James S. Wilk

Dewdrop . . . . . . . . . . O.P.W. Fredericks

The unnamed . . . . . . . . . . Christine Klocek-Lim

Creases . . . . . . . . . . Sally Houtman

Hospital Hush . . . . . . . . . . Larina Warnock

Days End . . . . . . . . . . Pat St.Pierre

One-Sided, Mother Calls . . . . . . . . . . Toni L. Wilkes

Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig . . . . . . . . . . James S. Wilk

White Lilacs  By Edouard Manet . . . . . . . . . . Alarie Tennille

Lilacs in a Vase . . . . . . . . . . Edouard Manet

The Cat’s Eye Nebula . . . . . . . . . . Christine Klocek-Lim

EUTERPE . . . . . . . . . . Maria Basile

Editor’s Choice

   Sheba . . . . . . . . . . Tina Hacker

   My Mother’s Hands . . . . . . . . . . Tina Hacker

   Cutting It . . . . . . . . . . Tina Hacker

   Final Night . . . . . . . . . . Tina Hacker

For Jean . . . . . . . . . . Linda K. Marshall

Lilly . . . . . . . . . . Ed Bennett

white lotus II . . . . . . . . . . Kelly Grace Smith

Chariot . . . . . . . . . . Frank Cavano

The Parable of Bailey . . . . . . . . . . Ed Bennett

Vigil . . . . . . . . . . Esther Greenleaf Mürer

My father . . . . . . . . . . Murray Alfredson

Tante Berta . . . . . . . . . . Sherry O’Keefe

She’s Coffined Within . . . . . . . . . . Mary Susan Clemons

Mercy Tin . . . . . . . . . . Sherry O’Keefe

Treading Water . . . . . . . . . . Larina Warnock

The Light at the End . . . . . . . . . . Larina Warnock

My Zack . . . . . . . . . . Larina Warnock

After Thoughts . . . . . . . . . . O.P.W. Fredericks & Daniel Milbo