Table of Contents Erin Sweeten Preface Tony Barnstone Parable of Farid and the Elephants Dan Beachy-Quick Poem Geoffrey Brock The President's Funeral: Mar. 19, 1959 Tom Daley Prodigal at Point Reyes Great South Pond, August 1914 Pairs Erica Dawson Brown Recluse When the City Calls Me Names Nappyhead In Consonance with the Order of Things Elizabeth Hadaway Dover Strip Stranger at Gym Insults My Messenger Bag H. L. Hix Poem Composed of Statements Made by George W. Bush in July 2002 Hailey Leithauser To a Mosquito To a Flea To a Praying Mantis Traci O'Dea Hair Receiver Jennifer Perrine This Page from My Pillow Book, This Page from My Bestiary Pierre de Ronsard Adieu, Cruel Girl (translated by Terese Coe) Ryan Sawyer New Year's Day Christof Scheele Hyssop Still, Life A. E. Stallings Pattern Susie Brandt Artwork: Stumps and Drains Artist's Statement Contributors' Notes