292.6 Nov - Dec 2007

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ART
Cover Write vs. Wrong [pastel on paper] • Gary Kelley
11 Untitled [photograph] • Robb Klassen
16 Untitled [photographic montage] • Marty Gotera
20 Untitled [pen and ink] • Jared Rogness
29 Untitled [graphite and ink] • Gary Kelley
FICTION
11 Flori • Linda Woolford
16 Small Humiliations • Nathan Leslie
20 Good in Crisis • Alethea Black
29 Doctor's Boys • Larry Watson
NONFICTION
3 Kill Haole Day • Jennifer D. Munro
38 Bad Debts • Louis Phillips
42 Trick of the Light • Desirae Matherly
48 De-Romancing the West [Past Perfect] • Ron Sandvik
POETRY
8 Venus of Willendorf • Elizabeth Schott
9 Alphabet City • Gerry LaFemina
10 [Though I Hire You Out] • Boyer Nickel
10 Marooned • Timothy Liu
12 Jesus Is a Mystery Shopper • Holly Amos
15 Me and My Lass, We Are a Poem • John Rybecki
18 Peregrine, Crocus, Aquavit • Dan Campion
18 Eden's Oranges • Adam Vines
19 My Mother Carries Heavy Water • Hadiyah Abdullah
19 Carrying This Life the Way the Sky Carries • Susan Elbe
22 Private Costa • Michael Miller
23 Private Bedford • Michael Miller
25 We Lived Above the Key Shop • Adam Day
26 I dreamed I was a Madame • Diane Seuss
28 I Apologize to a Large Moth as I Kill It • Matthew J. Spireng
28 Bioluminescence • Benjamin S. Grossberg
33 December, 1940 • Roy Bentley
36 At the Museum • Faith Shearin
41 Broken Spotlight of the World • Jack Graranth
41 Over the River and Through the Woods • Susanne Kort
43 Footprints • Tim Poland
Our Xanadu • Molly Peacock
REVIEWS
44 Crosscuts • Grant Tracey
45 Synecdoche • Vince Gotera
MISCELLANY
46 Contributors
49 Annual Index • Volume 292 2007