Issue 15

Spring/Summer 2014

Table of Contents

Editor: O.P.W. Fredericks

Assistant Editor: Daniel Milbo

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Cover

Respite ~ Cover Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

a certain kind of Eden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Grand Tetons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Becoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Miscarried . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Revenant Etudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Draining the Cup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Editors Choice:

The Voice of Larina Warnock . . . . . . . . . .

The Science of Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mourning Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

What Poets Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Body of Grief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Moving On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Once we were enemies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

On the way to the nursing home. . . . . . . . . . . .

Violet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Occident and the Ember. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

our bodies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

After Thoughts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Larina Warnock

O.P.W. Fredericks & Daniel Milbo

Sergio Ortiz

Sergio A. Ortiz

Stephen Bunch

Luke Evans

Brigita Orel

Jennifer L. Bauman

Stephen Bunch

Karen Kelsay

O.P.W. Fredericks

Larina Warnock

Larina Warnock

Larina Warnock

Deborah Polikoff

Art Heifetz

Gerard Sarnat

Michael Mark

Karen Kelsay

Luke Evans

Sergio A. Ortiz

O.P.W. Fredericks & Daniel Milbo