SIR 1995
Contents
Poetry
First Grade 鈥� Liam Rector
Blessed 鈥� Laurence E. Musgrove
Late Afternoons with Arthur 鈥� Philip Levine
Good Monday 鈥� Philip Levine
The Harbor at Nevermind, 1915 鈥� Philip Levine
Paint 鈥� Myra Shapiro
Poem Written in Place of a Letter 鈥� Alison Townsend
Tim Hardin 鈥� Don Slowik
Saroyanesque 鈥� Mark Jarman
Pastiche for Amateur Reed 鈥� Dristin Herbert
The Maple Wood 鈥� Shanda Hansma Blue聽
In an Airport Lounge 鈥� Michael Battram
Grief and a Starless Night 鈥� Terri Brown-Davidson
The Pleasures of the Cow 鈥� F. Lea Muller
Miner Redux 鈥� Terry Seaton
Your Best Friend Died 鈥� Corliss Terry
Frank 鈥� Mark Winkleman
The Christmas Letter 鈥� John Gibson
Funeral 鈥� Ruzha Cleaveland
Exit 鈥� Annabette Barr
Girls 鈥� Jeff Gundy
The Truth is Not the Story 鈥� Heather McHugh
Carriage Return 鈥� Heather McHugh
Were They Hurt 鈥� Heather McHugh
Silences 鈥� Barbara Savadge Horton
Landscape 鈥� Barbara Elovic
Uncle Charles Asleep 鈥� Sandra Hermann
My Father鈥檚 Love Song 鈥� Beth Simon
My Father鈥檚 Eyes 鈥� Donald Wolfe
Details 鈥� Lynne Kuderko
Family Room 鈥� Mary Jane Schenk
Maneater 鈥� Terry Appel
Put Your Money Down 鈥� Mike Carson
Fireflies at Benningtion 鈥� Dave Smith
Circa 1650 鈥� Dave Smith聽
The Gods in My Belly Listen 鈥� Dave Smith
Small Answers to a Last Letter 鈥� Dave Smith
Fiction
After Leaving Earth 鈥� Torie Olson
Legend 鈥� Leisa Belleau聽
Before Typhoid 鈥� Beth Simon
Necrophobia 鈥� Pat Aakhus
Essays
Where I live 鈥� Roxana Robinson
The Surrealist Films of Luis Bunuel 鈥� Daniel Scavone
Franz Kafka: Naming the Unnameable 鈥� Jayne Tang聽
Rereading Jack Kerouac鈥檚 On the Road: Another American Hero in Search of a Family 鈥� Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw
Victorian Cousins: Darwin, Galton, Science, and Society 鈥� Sandra Singer & Tom Wilhelmus
Art/Photography
After Ball鈥檚 鈥淟ove鈥檚 Memories鈥� 鈥� Kent Weber
Working Breakfast 鈥� Kendall C. Grosenick
Boats, Sarasota 鈥� Natalie Tindle
Black-eyed Susans 鈥� Fran Levine
Farmhouse on Country Line Road 鈥� Eric D. Braysmith
Outside the Rappite Cemetery, New Harmony, Indiana 鈥� Fran Levine聽
Bosc Pears 鈥� Fran Levine
Fall Festival 鈥� Kendall C. Gosenick
Sunset Drive-In 鈥� Eric D. Braysmith
Flora, Three Views 鈥� Kent Weber
As the World Turns 鈥� David Huebner
Untitled 鈥� Matthew Gehring
Silver Dollar Tavern 鈥� Eric D. Braysmith
After Roger鈥檚 鈥淣ydia鈥� 鈥� Kent Weber
Abandoned Farmhouse 鈥� Charles Price
Studio 鈥� Kent Weber
Spider Web 鈥� Charles Price