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Fall/Winter 2003

From the Editor
Thom Didato

T.C. Boyle
interview

"Flowereaters"
fiction by
Liana Scalettar

"The Cold Reader"
fiction by
Matthew Simmons

"Magnolia Estates"
fiction by
Heather McElhatton

"Buried Alive"
fiction by
Bryson Newhart

"scorpion"
"base"
poetry by
Raymond McDaniel

"Boy"
poetry by
Lauren Sassella

"runtsong"
"rings"
poetry by
Anne Pepper

"Over Pork Chops"
"A Shovel Floats from the Red Barn"
poetry by
Annalynn Hammond

"An Exploration"
poetry by
Richard Fulco

"Canon: History: Cycles...#1"
"Canon: History: Cycles...#2"
"Canon: History: Cycles...#3"
"Canon: History: Cycles...#4"
artwork by
Katsura Okada

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Boy

He is the bottom of the ladder.
A blunt tongue, a blunt mind,
wearing its own crown.
No one else can see it— it doesn't exist to them.

The stories.
The delusion.
The rueful competition to everything. Pathetic.

Again, here he comes
not knowing the rules of his own game—
being beaten by his idiocy.
Not 'poor boy' these days. No remorse, no guilt from us.

The sloth.
The egotism.
The flimsy essence of his conceitedness. Obvious.

He chooses me as his target now:
a futile aim. A boring feat:
too impossible.
No one else will say it— it doesn't need a voice.

I have something with your name on it— you,
with the caliber of nothing much—
because I know more about it
but you say what about it
and that is the play to win with.

Lauren Sassella is a young Australian writer who has recently had her poems published in various anthologies and magazines across America. She has also had similar success with her essays.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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