c o n t e n t s gentle words 7 Melissa Vincent Tom 8 Leslie Scott Trash-blanc 9 Merica Moynihan Hair 1965 10 Ellen Doyle Interact 11 Erich Vogel Identity Crisis 12 Duy T. Huynh The Survivor 13 Shari Lynn Sellers The Petroglyph 14 Tim Applegate Refugee and the Seminary Student Sermon 15 Jason Hughes untitled 16 Ramon Eric Kaguyutan Visual Acuity of Hell-Fire 17 Joddy Murray Journey of a Vietnamese Girl 18 Duy T. Huynh Surreal Vase #5 19 Rick Bardos My Mother 20 Sarah Pearsall Mind 21 Louise Till Study in Bilateral Symmetry 22 Brett Hillyer San Francisco circa 1938 23 Cynthia M. Sheets China I 24 Sharon Augustyniak Vietnamese Children 25 Sharon Augustyniak My Venus in Satin 26 Sarah Pearsall Moths 28 Penny Cagan Peeling a Pear 29 Emily Garner Remnants of Grandeur 30 Shea Alexander untitled 31 Karl Hoerz Bus Station 32 Jason Hughes Otto H–rz (April 7, 1931 - December 31, 1996) 33 Karl Hoerz Allegro Blues 34 Jason Hughes Withering Heights 36 Carol Caudle untitled 37 Carol Caudle Chain Gang 38 Brad McHugh Cold World 39 Duy T. Huynh Breasts 40 Mary Hanna untitled 45 Shea Alexander Rusty's Abortion 46 Ellen Lindquist Share 47 Randall Garrison Zac, Red, and a Bench 48 Shea Alexander Leave the Flowers in the Field 49 Miriam Jones Extension of You 50 Jeremy Parker "C" Anne 51 Mustafa Capkan The Rock 52 Louise Till Sleeping Id 53 Misty Lynch Watch Your Toes 54 Kendall Dodgens Press 55 Kasey Duncan Bruise 56 Misty Lynch Language as Mitosis and Metaphor 57 Cynthia Leffner Shell 58 Kendall Dodgens Dancing Rubberband 59 Rick Bardos