Melic Review 25

Ash Bowen ** Twenty Year Marriage (for Ai)	Andrei Postolache ** Salt
Jamie Cavanaugh ** recondite, without fear	T. Zachary Cotler ** "Cities, stars / on maps that adorn..."
Davis Harris Ebenbach ** Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man	William Winfield Wright ** Anadromous
Chris Robideaux ** Justificadences	Cyril Wong ** Elegy

Light Verse
Mitchell Geller ** Cambridge Spring	Rich Furman ** Become the Master You Are

Fiction Fiction Editor's Note

Richard K. Weems ** While Humping Savagely the Groundskeeper’s Barely Teenage Daughter, the Quartermaster Pauses Mid-Stroke as the Premiere of an Air by Henry Purcell Drifts from his Lord’s Dining Hall	Erik Rhey ** Prelude To A Beating
Jared Carter ** Spiral Staircase	M. Lynx Qualey ** Not Leaving Lebanon