AQR - Vol. 23, No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2006

About the Cover

Afternoon light flows into an ice cave vent, Matanuska Glacier, Alaska.

©2005 Hal Gage

Table of Contents

Fiction

Thoreau’s Laundry, Ann Harleman
Bird on Bird, Jason Ockert
Homicide Survivors Picnic, Lorraine M. López
Girl Fish, Jim Meirose
Angels, Jan Pendleton
The Turret House, Charles Wyatt
Jack’s Things, Peggy Shinner

Faux Interviews

The Other Margaret, William Eisner
Interview with the Last Remaining Member of the Feral Dog Pack which Fed on God’s Corpse – June 2006, Ronald F. Currie Jr

Personal Essays

Pregnant Madonna Scrubbing Floor, Kim Dana Kupperman
Looking at the Rosy Glow, Ellen Morris Prewitt

Poetry

GUEST EDITOR, Olena Kalytiak Davis
[Lying in bed I think about you], Joshua Beckman
[Beautiful arbitrary reflexivity (the night)], Joshua Beckman
Millefiori: The Habits of Belief, Angus Bennett
At Elmwood Cemetery, Mt. Elliott and Lafayette, Detroit, Laura Bernstein-Machlay
Embouchure, David Biespiel
Site-Specific Adaptations, Elizabeth Bradfield
Minneapolis, Joel Brouwer
White Suit, Joel Brouwer
Grid, Karen Chase
Part-Time Lazarus, Mark Conway
Zilch, Mark Conway
The Grasp Relaxed is Neither, Mark Cox
On Turning 38 in Roma, Kevin Craft
Towards a Philosophy of Extrapolation, Kevin Craft
Every River, Weston Cutter
Place Mat, Jim Daniels
Opium Remnants, Jim Daniels
Parked, Christine Deavel
Professional Extra, Michael Dumanis
I Had a Late Night Visitor, Bruce Farnsworth
jesus knew, Nick Flynn
Another Point, Mark Halliday
The Future of Terror / 4, Matthea Harvey
Terror of the Future / 4, Matthea Harvey
Happiness Writes White, Edward Hirsch
Hanging, Myself, Cyphar Hopkins
The Bombardment, Ilya Kaminsky
Alfonso Looks Out of the Window, Ilya Kaminsky
from Nocturnes, Deborah Landau
Money Variations, David Lehman
Last Body, Alex Lemon
What to Use to Make a Junco, J. W. Marshall
Cloud Elegy, Cate Marvin
A Strange Forbearance, Davis McCombs
The Mimic Birds, Davis McCombs
zugszwang, Jeffrey McDaniel
just for the record, Jeffrey McDaniel
Time Not Being High, Heather McHugh
As Yet but Knock, Heather McHugh
Ecstatic Cling, Susan Parr
Eros, Susan Parr
My Affair with the Physicist, Susan Parr
Swooping Actuarial Fauna, Susan Parr
clutch and pumps, D. A. Powell
Will, Elizabeth Powell
Aubade, Panicking, Paisley Rekdal
Pasted Up in the Vicinity of the Sun, David Rivard
Birthday, David Rivard
An American Comet, Mary Ruefle
I Came Across the Living One Night, Mary Ruefle
Toward the Clear Blue Water, Ksenia Rychtycka
Dies Irae, Ira Sadoff
Id, Ira Sadoff
Autumn Poem, Amelia Salisbury
On Hearing a Clock Chime Once While Listening, Frances Sjoberg
Self My With Is, Frances Sjoberg
What Her Door Said, John Surowiecki
Hallowmas, Michael Theune
Some Considerations of (Untitled), Michael Theune
Europe, Michael Theune
Lesson, Jonathan VanBallenberghe
Retreat, Jonathan VanBallenberghe
Mrs. Othmar, Mon Amour, G. C. Waldrep
Flu Song in Spanish, Kary Wayson
Echolocution, Kary Wayson
Unbidden, Katharine Whitcomb
Worlds, Katharine Whitcomb
Different People Feel Differently, Rebecca Wolff
Sotto Voce, Rebecca Wolff
Twelve Exercises, Franz Wright
January, Matthew Zapruder
Lazy Comet, Hurry, Matthew Zapruder
from Roche Limit, Andrew Zawacki