PLAN B PRESS Issue Joseph Kerschbaum Joseph Kerschbaum is our second author from Bloomington, IN published in 2010. His book is called Your Casual Survival (the air and the echo).   PRISONER OF WAR (demon at the window) A pin dropped ...............is a warhead detonated. ...............When the hard wood floor creaks the earth cracks ...............open. A cat paw placed too heavily............... is the boot heel of a Vietcong footman. A quiet house amplifies a dripping faucet ...............and my father’s distorted dreams turn it into ...............a demon ...............tapping on the window. My father ...............leaps out of bed as if he has stepped ...............on a landmine anytime the slightest explosion is triggered ...............by the house settling. ...............He tells me that once you have slept ...............in the rain ...............with a cocked rifle in your hands it’s always there. ...............Whenever ...............you are startled awake your finger twitches, ...............pulling the trigger Joseph Kerschbaum has written four other collections of poems and two spoken word albums. His work has appeared in publications such as Arsenic Lobster, failbetter, Refined Savage Poetry Review, and The Delinquent. Joseph has received grants from the Indiana Arts Commission and the NEA. He is active in the performance poetry/slam poetry community and has performed his work around the country. Joseph lives with his family in Bloomington, IN. His website: http://www.ThirstyOcean.com.   Published in Volume 11, Number 3, Summer 2010.