VOLUME SEVEN, NUMBER TWO
Spring 2006THE WARTIME ISSUE
Introduction by Guest Editor Sarah Browning
CONTENTS
Section I – A Part of Us Vanishes Each Day
Linda Blaskey: "A Marine Comes to Tell Her What She Already Knows"
Bill Vander Clute: "Less Than a Moment"
Ann Ryan: "Angry Mother’s Son"
Reuben Jackson: "Keith"
Parris Garnier: "Delegation"
Adam Chiles: "Tuscon Elegy"
Venus Thrash: "Ritual"
Grace Cavalieri: "Dying Is Different Than I Thought It Would Be"
Melanie Henderson: "Military Portraits"
Section II – What We Are Capable Of
Linda Pastan: "What We Are Capable Of"
Zein El-Amine: "My Jesus" and "Haiku for the Head Locked"
Rose Berger: "For Botero, Who Looked at What I Could Not"
Joanne Rocky Delaplane: "I Confess"
Christi Kramer: "What do the dancing white birds say looking down
.......upon burnt meadows?"
Luis Alberto Ambroggio: "El peso de los cuerpos" and "The Weight of
.......the Bodies"
W. Luther Jett: "Recessional"
Johnna Schmidt: "To the Captors of Tom Fox on December 13, 2005"
Section III – I’ll Fight My Heart
Ernie Wormwood: "Mea Culpa"
Rosemary Winslow: "Morning Routine"
E. Ethelbert Miller: "These Seinfeld days when nothing happens except I love .......you"
Jody Bolz: "Mid-Winter, Mid-War"
Virginia E. Bell: "No Pope"
Marie Pavlicek-Wehrli: "In These Times"
Leah Harris: "Uncertain Promises"
Section IV – Through the Looking Glass
Ellen Wise: "Of Gods and Clowns"
M.A. Schaffner: "Field of Operations"
Kyle Dargan: "Still Life w President Laying a Wreath on the Tomb of the .......Unknown Soldier"
William Rutkowski: "Metal"
Kyndall Brown: "When is War Going to Stop?"
Mike Maggio: "Collateral Damage"
Lori Tsang: "making a killing"
Sunil Freeman: "When the Terrorists Get Creative"
Jeneva Stone: "Through the Looking Glass in Iraq"
Piotr Gwiazda: "The Flag"
Jennifer Steele: "Turtle"
Reginald Dwayne Betts: "a conversation"
Section V – Go Ahead, Open Your Hand
Melissa Tuckey: "Forsythia Winter"
Yael Flusberg: "Relocated Boulders Bless the Grounds of the National .......Museum of the American Indian"
Joe Lapp: "The War From This Side of the Anacostia River"
Marcella Wolfe: "For the Monument Custodian"
Judith McCombs: "Walking with William Blake Near Capitol Hill, D.C."
Fred Joiner: "home is where the war is"
Suzanna Banwell: "War Immemorial"
Esther Iverem: "Be All That You Can Be Haiku" and "Mom Haiku"
Carlos Parada: "Fading Memories"
David Gewanter: "War Bird: A Journal"