SIR 1995
Contents
Poetry
First Grade 鈥 Liam Rector
Blessed 鈥 Laurence E. Musgrove
Late Afternoons with Arthur 鈥 Philip Levine
Good Monday 鈥 Philip Levine
The Harbor at Nevermind, 1915 鈥 Philip Levine
Paint 鈥 Myra Shapiro
Poem Written in Place of a Letter 鈥 Alison Townsend
Tim Hardin 鈥 Don Slowik
Saroyanesque 鈥 Mark Jarman
Pastiche for Amateur Reed 鈥 Dristin Herbert
The Maple Wood 鈥 Shanda Hansma Blue聽
In an Airport Lounge 鈥 Michael Battram
Grief and a Starless Night 鈥 Terri Brown-Davidson
The Pleasures of the Cow 鈥 F. Lea Muller
Miner Redux 鈥 Terry Seaton
Your Best Friend Died 鈥 Corliss Terry
Frank 鈥 Mark Winkleman
The Christmas Letter 鈥 John Gibson
Funeral 鈥 Ruzha Cleaveland
Exit 鈥 Annabette Barr
Girls 鈥 Jeff Gundy
The Truth is Not the Story 鈥 Heather McHugh
Carriage Return 鈥 Heather McHugh
Were They Hurt 鈥 Heather McHugh
Silences 鈥 Barbara Savadge Horton
Landscape 鈥 Barbara Elovic
Uncle Charles Asleep 鈥 Sandra Hermann
My Father鈥檚 Love Song 鈥 Beth Simon
My Father鈥檚 Eyes 鈥 Donald Wolfe
Details 鈥 Lynne Kuderko
Family Room 鈥 Mary Jane Schenk
Maneater 鈥 Terry Appel
Put Your Money Down 鈥 Mike Carson
Fireflies at Benningtion 鈥 Dave Smith
Circa 1650 鈥 Dave Smith聽
The Gods in My Belly Listen 鈥 Dave Smith
Small Answers to a Last Letter 鈥 Dave Smith
Fiction
After Leaving Earth 鈥 Torie Olson
Legend 鈥 Leisa Belleau聽
Before Typhoid 鈥 Beth Simon
Necrophobia 鈥 Pat Aakhus
Essays
Where I live 鈥 Roxana Robinson
The Surrealist Films of Luis Bunuel 鈥 Daniel Scavone
Franz Kafka: Naming the Unnameable 鈥 Jayne Tang聽
Rereading Jack Kerouac鈥檚 On the Road: Another American Hero in Search of a Family 鈥 Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw
Victorian Cousins: Darwin, Galton, Science, and Society 鈥 Sandra Singer & Tom Wilhelmus
Art/Photography
After Ball鈥檚 鈥淟ove鈥檚 Memories鈥 鈥 Kent Weber
Working Breakfast 鈥 Kendall C. Grosenick
Boats, Sarasota 鈥 Natalie Tindle
Black-eyed Susans 鈥 Fran Levine
Farmhouse on Country Line Road 鈥 Eric D. Braysmith
Outside the Rappite Cemetery, New Harmony, Indiana 鈥 Fran Levine聽
Bosc Pears 鈥 Fran Levine
Fall Festival 鈥 Kendall C. Gosenick
Sunset Drive-In 鈥 Eric D. Braysmith
Flora, Three Views 鈥 Kent Weber
As the World Turns 鈥 David Huebner
Untitled 鈥 Matthew Gehring
Silver Dollar Tavern 鈥 Eric D. Braysmith
After Roger鈥檚 鈥淣ydia鈥 鈥 Kent Weber
Abandoned Farmhouse 鈥 Charles Price
Studio 鈥 Kent Weber
Spider Web 鈥 Charles Price