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Issue 71
Editor's Note
POETRY
Peg Alford Pursell
Deborah Allbritain
Eloisa Amezcua
Roger Desy
Jane Dodds
Valerie Duff
Hannah Fries
Grace Marie Grafton
Linda Holland
Betsy Johnson-Miller
Doris Low Kamenetz
Kendra Kopelke
Steve Langan
Sally Stewart Mohney
Jeremiah Moriarty
Mary Ellen Redmond
Sam Sax
Charles Harper Webb
Will Wells
FICTION
Jacquelin Cangro
Mark Crimmins
Michael Don
ESSAY
Chard DeNiord
Issue > Poetry
Betsy Johnson-Miller
Betsy Johnson-Miller
lives and teaches in Minnesota. Her poetry and essays have appeared in
Boulevard
,
Agni
,
Gray's Sporting Journal
,
Portland
and
Mid-American Review
.
What Is Romantic, Honestly
I mean
to answer with a sapling
in a pickle jar
covered with tiny
light bulbs
I caught burning
in a field
that bed
of milkweed and
animal sleep
(body curled
around body curled)
instead
of moonlight
on train tracks
that end
Poetry
Jeremiah Moriarty
Because The Road
Poetry
Mary Ellen Redmond
Fifty-Six Days
Poetry
Will Wells
Like New