INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Shutta Crum
Paul B. Roth
Laszlo Slomovits
Duane Locke
Felino Soriano
Chris Lord
Jerry Blanton
Carmen Firan
Amelia Makinano
Connie Stadler
Fred Wolven
Duane Locke
Tolu Ogunlesi
Running Cub
Joanie Freeman
Gerald Clark
Karyn M. Wolven
Holly Day
Dike Okoro
Fred Wolven
Like a vein of copper
In the pile of tee shirts
Forgotten
At the back of the dark closet
It was yours
A treasure in the dark evenings of January
Still wrinkled where clothes pins
Held it to the line
Sun dried
And smelling like you
And summer
And things lost
For awhile
THOUGH I NEVER SAW IT
Though I never saw it
I remember the ceramic blue bird
Fragile and chipped
Wounded
Yet able to weather storms and sun and cold
Its crystalline strength
Softened by the sky blue glaze
The gray wear of years
And the love
It would some day hold
Gerald Clark, Ann Arbor