From the Editor From the Poetry Editor From the Fiction Editor Contributors BEST OF MELIC POETRY: THE FIRST FIVE YEARS
From the Poetry Editor
From the Fiction Editor
Contributors
BEST OF MELIC POETRY: THE FIRST FIVE YEARS
P O E M S
Alfred Corn Featured Poet
Walter Bargen The Price of Palm Trees
Jirí Cêch Refugees
Jeannine Hall Gailey Philomel, at the End
Ruth Padel The Soho Leopard The Golden Boot
S. Sucur She Stalks in Manufactured Darkness
Jeffrey Alfier Losing Ithaca
Laurie Byro The Difference
R. C. Diebold My Biology
David Dodd Lee Lighter than Air
James M. Rourke Hiding Under An Enormous Leaf
Kemel Zaldivar Song of Innocence
F I C T I O N
Yvonne Chism-Peace Streams of Conscience
Mary McGrail See You Later Crocodile
Dennis Tafoya If You Come Back While I'm Out
Jonathan Curelop To the Warehouse
Maria Santos The Calm
E S S A Y S
Mycroft Cramden Random Apothegms
Dweebler Cramden Of Bodily Additions and Subtractions