Table of Contents

Table of Contents
letter from the editor / iii
BECOME A FRIEND OF PING•PONG / viii
FICTION
6/ Kimberley Jean Smith
The Five Conditions of Need
43/ Jim Meirose
Praying the Fishlist
130/ Evan Rehill
Sweetheart
NON-FICTION
76/ Kambale Musavali
Avatar’s Pandora: A Modern Day Battle in the Congo
POETRY
1 / Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts
Woman and Lupine
WOMAN AND LUPINE
2/ Joanna Fuhrman
You Better Believe It
The Epiphany Was Pink and on Cue
1999
8 / Jennifer K. Sweeney
Angels Walking Through the Earth
Across Useless Bay
The Concert
Equinox
Nocturne
16/ Cynthia Cruz
Dannemore
Sheperd
Death Star
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19/ Gianni Marchetti (Tr. Gail McDowell)
Tangoneon (Astor Piazzolla)/ Tangoneon (Astor Piazzolla
Una Bella Nuotata / A Nice Swim
Tromba da Dio / Heavenly Trumpet
Divertirsi davvero? / Really Having Fun?
Dei Morti / Of the Dead
Il pianoforte speciale di Michel Petrucciani / The Special Piano of
Michel Petrucciani
Contro e Abbasso / Contra and Bass
39/ Joanna Penn Cooper
Glacier
Fractal
58/ Marthe Reed
Representations
ordering oblivion
602nd Night
The Calculations of Birds
66/ Mackenzie Carignan
Poet palliate
the street below
& 30
73/ Arlene Ang
Study of the Night Watchman’s House,
This Knife, This Sky
80/ Lucas Chib
Ernesto Cardenal and the chalk board full of derivatives
Galileo has caught the devil!
82/ Mircea Cărtărescu (Tr. Adam J. Sorkin and Daniel Mangu)
Poet I Beg You
The Scent of Dry Leaves
I’m Jealous, Damn it…
Winter Sunlight
I Walk Down Water Lily Street in Bright Sun
95/ Thomas C. Marshall
A Tough Guy Dead in a Dark Room Downtown
The Truth is the Loot I Offer
Ping v Pong
The Maltese Faux Con
98/ Stephen Massimilla
Conjugal Snowscape, With Scarecrow
99/ Thaddeus Rutkowski
Soul Brother
Don’t Want To Be A Bum? Chew Gum.
101/ Valerie Fox
how the river had invited her down for a serious talk
from The Dream Book
104/ Douglas Piccinnini
Heaven as Heaven
Be So, Ashamed
106/ Sarah Gardner
Ache
At This Hour
Aubade
In a Season of Opals
111/ Tiziano Fratus (Tr. Gail McDowell)
Da Historia de Malo Amor / from Historia de Malo Amor
Da Il Vangelo della Carne / from Flesh Gospel
La logica dello specchio secondo i fiamminghi/ The logic of
mirrors according to the Flemish
Sguardo miope di un discendente di Galileo Galilei/ The
nearsighted gaze of a descendant of Galileo Galilei
Persone che credono e persone che non credono/ Believers and
unbelievers
Da 5PX2 / from 5PX2
Clamidosauro americano / American chlamydosaurus
126/ Monica Colbert
September
127/ Michael Alfaro
Amor, Ohio
128/ Michel DuPre
New Concept Elizabeth
Anthropology
131/ Nathan Austin
Ping vi Pong
from Survey Says!
133/ Lynn Levin
Mooncakes
134/ Laura Sims
Master
For Two Voices
ARTWORK
9/ Richard Kochanek
41/ Carolyn Cole
69/ Michelle Magdalena
91 / Dana Lee
126/ Stewart Ferebee
CONTRIBUTORS / 134
ABOUT THE HENRY MILLER LIBRARY /139
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