Table of Contents & Picture Credits
Editor’s Note: Middlelost 1
Darks and Light 7
Maged Zahler, Illness and Reality 9
Kristen Case, On Certainty 21
Elizabeth T. Gray Jr., from After the
Operation 45
Dale Smith, Carmen Perpetuum 53
Sarah Menafee, Untitled Sequence 59
Jenny Zervakis —Reaching towards the
source of light: office plants 69
The Girls 75
Elizabeth T. Gray Jr., from Tarot 77
Mary Yordy, Untitled 82
Geneviève Machöel, Tendresses 85
Elizabeth Corliss, Outward Forms 95
An Loc 105
Mary Jane Gore, Echidna 111
Kimberly Lyons, Five Poems 119
Catherine Rush —Portals 125
The Boys 137
Mark Scroggins, Two sections from
Zion Offramp 139
Albert Mobilio, Guide for the
Discouraged (more of) 149
Sam Need, Flatbush 161
Dale Smith, Four Poems 168
Cory Massaro, Two Poems 174
Andrew Mossin, First Orphic Hymn 179
Stephen Sartarelli, Ontologies II 189
Joseph Donahue, The Palace of
Boundless Cold I 207
On Reading and Writing 219
Introduction 221
Kristen Case, In the Cave 222
Andrew Mossin, A Story That Cannot
Be Told 233
David Need, Being Creatures in
Language 250
Contributors Notes & Acknowledgments 269
