About the Cover

A horned puffin shifts his weight from one leg to the other getting ready to fly, St. Herman Harbor, Kodiak, Alaska.
© 2017 Marion Owen.

AQR Vol. 34, No. 1 & 2, Summer/Fall 2017

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note

Fiction

Special Feature

Poetry

Why Give An Excuse for Skinny Dipping, Jessica Jacobs
Leaving Home, Jessica Jacobs
Six Haibun Poems from Toward Antarctica, Elizabeth Bradfield
Closet Moths, Karen Leona Anderson
Roach Ode, Karen Leona Anderson
Woundwort, Karen Leona Anderson
That Bird Out There, Karla K. Morton
Not Montale’s Eel, Wendy Barker
Bamboo Forest, Faith Shearin
Interpretive Trail, Willie Lin
American Mutoscope and Biograph, Michael Hurley
The Numerous, Bruce Bond
East of Glastonbury, G. C. Waldrep
In a Painting by Marc Chagall, Kareem Tayyar
Frontier, L.A. Johnson
Georgic I: Back-to‑the-Land Poem, Ben Swimm
The Grosbeaks, Jill Osier
Like a Great Sadness, the Tide, Jill Osier
Illusion, Gabrielle Bates
Pastoral, Gabrielle Bates
The Masters, Gabrielle Bates
Orgasm as Lapwing, Jennie Malboeuf
Fear, Jennie Malboeuf
Kaan and Her Sisters Survive the Siege, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Dear Miss Sahar, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Pastoral with Restless Searchlight, Michelle Brittan Rosado
Poem to My Unborn Son the Morning after the Election, Michelle Brittan Rosado
Ghost House, Kate Gleason
Understudies, John Sibley Williams
1976, Chanda Feldman
But We Lived, Chanda Feldman
Nobody Wanted Such a River, Erin Hoover
Once Mother and Father Were Buried, Susan Rich
Oolite Lunch, Mira Rosenthal
Vocalise, Laura Fargas
Blues for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, Laura Fargas
At a Cocktail Party, I Am Given a Drink Called, “Life is Fleeting and the Olive is Temporary”, Kelli Russell Agodon
The Next to Last to First Kiss, Taije Silverman
At Sunrise, Dilruba Ahmed
Local Newspaper, Floating Photographer, Father’s Day Edition, Dilruba Ahmed
Estelle, Michael Mark
Women in the Waiting Room, Kirun Kapur
Hotline, Kirun Kapur
Flannery’s White Irises, Peggy Shumaker
Brocade, Jane Hirshfield
Musa Paradisiaca, Jane Hirshfield
Questionnaire, Jane Hirshfield
Harboury, Robert Wrigley
Horse Heaven, Robert Wrigley