Volume 13:2, Spring 2012 Table of Contents Mario Escobar Bystanders My Mother's Bags A War Call I Have a Poem Postwar Syndrome Wynn Yarbrough You Talk and Talk While We Ride from Shady Grove to Courthouse The Girls Go Bird Crazy Between Two Rivers, the Bird and I Must Break Up Mercury A Commuting Niki Herd Sonnet: Conrad Murray Watches Michael Jackson Premier the Moonwalk, 1983 Basketball Bop for King James Upon Leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers Cookie Monster to First Lady Michelle Obama Backstage After a Taping of Sesame Street The King He's Got the Whole World In His Hands Patrick Washington This is for Rich Your Next First Breath The Good Part The Lady in My Life (for U Street) Herman Taube The Sledovatel Irkutsk The Crows The Girls of the Warsaw Ghetto Days of Awe Approaching