Fall 1986

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Fall 1986

Table of Contents

Poetry

50 on 50

By Peter Meinke

A Cabinet of Seeds Displayed & The Three Towns

By Howard Nemerov

A Dislike for Flowers

By Michael Cadnum

A Fugue

By Ellen Bryant Voigt

A Man’s Vocation Is Nobody’s Business

By James Galvin

A Story You Know

All Hallows Eve

By Kathryn Stripling Byer

Any Night; Last Song of the Angel of Bad Luck; & Who

By Philip Levine

Ararat

By Peter Cooley

Bedtime Story & A Winter Visit

Biography of a Still Life

By Charles Edward Eaton

Blossom

By Stanley Plumly

Bread

By Stephen Corey

Caravati’s Salvage: Richmond, Virginia

Crickets

By David Rigsbee

Cutting Beetle-Blighted Ponderosa Pine

By Jonathan Holden

Dance Script with Electric Ballerina

By Alice Fulton

Desire

Don Juan in Winter

By Michael Mott

Earthsleep

By Fred Chappell

Enough Time & Because We Are Not Taken Seriously

By Stephen Dunn

Finisterre

By John Frederick Nims

Flood

By William Matthews

For Dulcimer & Doubled Voice

By Jordan Smith

From a Milkweed Pod

By Robert Frost

Graffiti for a Particle Accelerator

By Dexter Masters

Green Tomatoes & Watch Them Die

By Dennis Trudell

Greenwood

By Richard Jackson

Horn

If Justice Moved

By Bettie M. Sellers

In Scorching Time

By Alex Stevens

In the Winter Dark

It’s All in Your Head

By Marilyn Nelson Waniek

Jackpot & Haying

By Jorie Graham

Judgement of Paris

By Robert Graves

Just Now

Landscape of Domestic Life

By David Graham

Last Words to James Wright

By Richard Hugo

Lesson & I Arrive in a Small Boat, Alone

By Susan Ludvigson

Luminare

Luxury of Sin

By Joyce Carol Oates

Märchenbilder & Whether It Exists

By John Ashbery

Martyrdom: A Love Poem & Syllogism

Milkweed Pods in Winter & Southpaw

By Lisel Mueller

Monuments

By John Hollander

Mountain Soprano

By Martha McFerren

Moving Out

By Robley Wilson Jr.

My Guardian Angel Stein

By Philip Schultz

My Swallows & Hidden Justice

By Gerald Stern

Nothing Happened

By Betty Adcock

Novena

By Mary Swander

Old Theme

On the Marshes at Dawn

Once Upon a Time

By Mekeel McBride

Orb

By Maxine Kumin

Orchestra

Page from the Koran

By James Merrill

Painting a Madonna

Perennials

By Judith Kitchen

Pigs

By Andrea Hollander

Plague Sermon

By William Heyen

Prayer Service in an English Church

Receiving the Stigmata

Savants

By Lucien Stryk

Saying Her Name & Old Map of Barnstable County

By James Galvin

Seasons & Muted Music

By Robert Penn Warren

Severe Figures

By Charles Simic

Simple Rituals

By Dyan Sublett

Skunk Cabbage & At Loxahatchie

Sometimes Music Rises & Of Sitting Bear

Spring at Arm’s Length

By Charles Vandersee

Stairs & Fate

By W. S. Merwin

Stitching in Time: Dorothy Ruddick

By Richard Howard

Such Instance

By Byron Herbert Reece

Taking the Milk to Grandmother

By William Kloefkorn

Thanksgiving, Growing Older

By William Doreski

The Art of Surrender

By David Wagoner

The Cartographers

By Heather Allen

The Competitors

By Gerald W. Barrax

The Creation of the Inaudible

By Pattiann Rogers

The Faithful

By Michael Waters

The Fat Lady Travels

By Cathy Smith Bowers

The Feast of Stephen

By Anthony Hecht

The Final Prospect

By Carl L. Stach

The Great Poems

The Harbor

The Intimate Earth

By Pamela Kircher

The Last Rebirth

By Coleman Barks

The List

The Name of God Is

By Jeanine Hathaway

The People in These Houses

By Jack Matthews

The Prejohn

By Hunt Hawkins

The Printer; Epilogue; & Prologue

By Linda Pastan

The Rapture Is Coming

By Alice Golembiewski Phillips

The Reckoning

By Alice Friman

The rock of this odd coincidence

By Penelope Scambly Schott

The Second Story

By T. R. Hummer

The Second Violinist’s Son

By Debora Greger

The Second Year

By Marion Montgomery

The Stagger of the Wind That I Think Is Your Turning

The Travellers

By Elizabeth Spires

The Tremors at Balvano

By Norman Williams

The Walk

By Conrad Aiken

The Witch’s Life; Locked Doors; & Snow

To Rise, So Suddenly

To the Cicada & Honey

By James Wright

Topography

By Mark A. R. Facknitz

Trusting Each Other & Tides

By William Stafford

Trying to Separate

Views of an American Writer

By Sumio Matsuda

What the Wing Says

By David Swanger

Wheat

By Gary Gildner

Where We Are

By Judson Mitcham

Widow Under a New Moon

Windows

By William Dickey

You Tell Me

By Lynn Emanuel

Zimmer to His Students