AQR - Vol. 9, No. 3 & 4, Spring/Summer 1991

About the Cover

Lily pads thrive in the clear water of Kashwitna Lake in late Spring. Located at mile 74.6 of the George Parks Highway, the lake is a popular staging point for floatplane trips into the Susitna River Valley and the Alaska Range.

© Hal Gage

Table of Contents

Fiction

Imperfect, Tense, Sheila Paulos
The Ocean, Antonya Nelson
Mamie, Susan Paul
The Importance of Birds, Nancy Roberts
The South, Stacy R. Thompson
Delta Junction, Barbara Christian
Still Life with Automobile, Margot Patterson
How I Lost the Weight, Jennifer Perlman
The Story-Tellers, Marie Sheppard Williams
Fallout, Larry Starzec
Pursuits, Linda Moore Spencer
Present Past, Linda Moore Spencer
Vanishing Twin, Jill Birdsall
In the MacAdams’ Swimming Pool, Nicola Williams
January Wedding Day Blues, Andraya Dolbee
Sailors Take Warning, Pamela Dell

Poetry

Back at the Pond, Susan Waters
Ruins, Susan Waters
Penelope, Ioanna-Veronika Warwick
Penelope and Odysseus as One Person, Ioanna-Veronika Warwick
My Way to Fly a Kite, Kathleen Bogan
The Morning After, Elizabeth McLagan
The Prisoners, Pamela Donald
Where It Ends, Victoria Wyttenberg
Late Snow, Ann B. Knox
Self-Portrait in Black and White, Ann B. Knox
That Night the News Said “Rain”, Wendy Bishop