From this Issue
Poem
A second crop of hay lies cut
and turned. Five gleaming crows
search and peck between the rows.
They make a low, companionable squawk,
and like midwives and undertakers
possess a weird authority.
Crickets leap from the stubble,
parting before me like the Red Sea.
The garden sprawls...
and turned. Five gleaming crows
search and peck between the rows.
They make a low, companionable squawk,
and like midwives and undertakers
possess a weird authority.
Crickets leap from the stubble,
parting before me like the Red Sea.
The garden sprawls...

Table of Contents
- Jane Kenyon
- Lucien Stryk
- Jim Simmerman
- Jim Peterson
- Gail Mazur
- Eric Pankey
- Ronald Wallace
- Laurel Trivelpiece
- Robert Cording
- R. T. Smith
- Reynolds Price
- Tina Barr
- Aleda Shirley
- Michael Donaghy
- Donald Finkel
- Jeffrey Skinner
- David Ray
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