From the Editor Thom Didato
Marie Ponsot interview
"I Ask the Clerk" "Our Car" "Company" poems by Harold Bowes
"Twelfth Possible Definition of Irony" "Second Possible Definition of Fundamentalism" poems by Michael Ceraolo
"Jigsaw With Soundtrack" "Erased Poem" poems by Shanna Compton
"The Question" "From the Natural Harbor" poems by Amy Eisner
"The Film Critic" poem by Christian Langworthy
"The Crow" "PhotoElectric" "epigraph for elimae" poems by Kathryn Rantala
"Art History" "Darwin" poems by Ed Skoog
"Arkey's Silver Dollar Bar" "Dancing at Ginny's" "Don with Beer" "Kendalia Halle" photographs by Rachel Newton essays by Mitch Baranowski
I ask the clerk the name of the river. "Clearwater," she says. I don't ask about the small blue birds with black crests.
© 2002 Harold Bowes
Harold Bowes edits Alba: A Magazine of Short Poetry. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Snow Monkey, Pig Iron Malt, Portland Review, Tundra, Acorn and Black Bough.
He lives and writes from Pendleton, Oregon.
"Old Bardstown" Ellen Hagan Issue 10 - Spring/Summer 2003
"Who Invited the Monkey to Omen's Party" Arisa White Issue 11 - Spring 2004
"Ballad of the Strong Man in New York" Suzanne Burns Issue 6 - Spring/Summer 2002
