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SFA Home / RE:AL / Past Issues / Volume 28.1

Table of Contents

RE:AL - Volume 28, No. 1

EDITOR'S NOTES 8

POETRY

SILK ROAD 10

SURFACE 12

VANISHING POINT 14

Suzanne Heyd

Naptime 17

I like 18

Rachelle L. Hosty

RECOVERING PERFECTIONIST 20

STEPDAD 21

AT 30,000 FEET 22

Pat McCutcheon

IN A PASTURE 23

Don Russ

An American, As Southerner 24

Errol Miller

MONEYMEN AND MULLAHS 26

JIHAD IN THE MORNING 27

TERRORIST 28

DYING 29

Ben Wilensky

THE EQUATION 30

THE FIRST VISIT 31

LAST SONG 32

Barry Ballard

THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY 33

Virginia Schnurr

THAT NIGHT 34

K.V. Skene

First Drink of Spring 35

Paul B. Roth

Ironing Board 36

Peter Mladinic

Never go there `more 38

The Liberty 40

Diagnosis/Prognosis, Parent 41

Cyd Adams

SNAKE MAGIC 42

BROWN STUDY 43

D.A. Feinfeld

CLEANING UP AT THE HAMTRACK BURGER CHEF 44

EUGENE WALKS OFF THE JOB 45

THE GRILL COOK'S DREAM 46

WORKING LATE 47

Don Winter

deadly recoil 48

Christopher M. Brinson

The Trend 50

Tim Kahl

LEROY 51

Don A. Ryan


Winter Dogs Named Id 52

Laurie Byro

I ASKED 54

Diana C. DuMoulin

Elegy 55

Alex Richardson

The Street Where You Lived 56

Earl Coleman

THE WALL 57

Linda Bosson

SOMETHING WICKED ALREADY GOT US 58

George Staehle

SLIP MOON IN FEBRUARY 60

Gay Baines

BODY LANGUAGE 61

Dorothy Stroud

AN ELEGY FOR THE DEATH OF LANGUAGE 62

Carl Auerbach

Her EX 64

Family Tree 65

Greg Kimura

Procession 66

Sepulcher 67

Surviving the Good Times 68

If You Don't Hear from Me 69

Gaylord Brewer



Pools on Snow 70

Jon Mathewson

Fish Eyes 71

Holly Day

CARAVAN 72

THE BLOOMING, 1982-83 73

Marc Elihu Hofstadter

Insider 74

Anselm Brocki

Messing Up 75

Norman Nathan

Barrow Point 76

Ward Kelley

SOMEDAY 77

Stephen Jarrell Williams

`nel mezzo del cammin 78

Cal Kinnear

MISERY 79

Bobbi Lurie

Remora 80

Culling the Flock 81

Thinking of a Very Overweight Friend 82

Matthew J. Spireng

Loss 83

Daniel King

Business School Classroom 84

Equal Opportunity 85

Cheryl Suchors

YOU'RE WRENCHING MY HUBCABS 86

SHORT ORDER 87

David Lawrence

Pantheon 88

K. E. Duffin

PROSE

FAT PRIEST FACE 90

Jon Boilard

Pearl Diving 92

Earl Coleman

INSIDE OF MEN 99

John Phillips

Smoke and Mirrors 111

William Joblonsky

MEN IN TREES 116

Brian Evenson

White Sheet 133

David Gagnon

Papa Harry 134

Suzanne Billhymer

Space Relations 136

Dan Belanger

Get Your Hot Corn Here 147

Forrest Stone

A Question of Place 169

Ronna Wineberg

The Navy Pea Coat 172

Sybil Baker

Kidnapped 187

Edward Doughtie

DIRTY SOAP 194

Kristine Helbling Mayo

THE GIFT 202

Stephanie Waxman

FOR ALL YOUR PLASTIC NEEDS 208

Linda Button

YOUR FRIEND, ARLENE 221

Christine Ecklund

ROACHES CRAWLED ACROSS MY CHICKEN 225

J. Morris

MEDUSA SONG 243

Mary Akers

THIEF 246

Kim Bridgford

MIRROR, MIRROR 258

Frances Burch

QUAHADI SUMMER 262

Jim Finley

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES 276

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