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Anonymous, Issue 17

Antler, Issue 36

Amy Beeder, Issue 16

Boyd W. Bensen, Issue 31

Donna Biffar, Issue 15

Kimberly Blaeser, Issue 27

P. W. Boisvert, Issue 39

Rick Cannon, Issue 28

Jared Carter, Issue 24

David Chorlton, Issue 40

Billy Collins, Issue 1, Issue 18

Philip Dacey, Issue 6

Denise Duhamel, Issue 13

Stephen Dunn, Issue 34

Stuart Dybek, Issue 41

Dave Etter, Issue 14

Norma Hammond, Issue 22

David Hernandez, Issue 23

Susan Holahan, Issue 12

Tim Hunt, issue 42

Angela Just, Issue 32

Lisa Kadous, Issue 20

Julie King, Issue 30


Lyn Lifshin, Issue 19

Louis McKee, Issue 5

Eve Merriam, Issue 7

Pamela Miller, Issue 8

Lisel Mueller, Issue 29

D. Nurkse, Issue 9

Alexis Orgera, Issue 35

James Reiss, Issue 26

Len Roberts, Issue 2

Kristopher Saknussemm, Issue 10

R. T. Smith, Issue 38

Cathy Song, Issue 21

Judith Valente, Issue 37

Charles Harper Webb, Issue 25

Mary Ann Waters, Issue 11

J. D. Whitney, Issue 33

Bayla Winters, Issue 3

Lila Zeiger, Issue 4

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Theories of Limited War

The voices penetrate each other,
fill each other with sperm,
honey, sugar, blood, wine,
smoke ... sometimes a voice
will die, sometimes a voice
will surrender and become the slave
of another ... some of the voices
were men once, soldiers, priests,
lovers, children, now they climb
on top of each other, higher and higher,
the preparations continued in the sky,
and in the lulls you hear broken breath
and whispers, mercy, and the great voice
chanting the news: the day,
the hour, the second,
why the war will never be declared.

--D. Nurkse
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