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	Summer/Fall 2002 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

The Crow
Kathryn Rantala

This in so variable crow
epitome of noise on high wire
sees me look upwind
and at a pause notices
a feather half out.

Plucks and drops shined obsidian.

I glean it ladder down
both tool and gift and,
as wire, caw, sway
and circus the first town days,
free.

The rest of flight lifts him.

Kathryn Rantala's work has recently appeared or is upcoming in The Notre Dame Review, Field, 3rd Bed, Raven Chronicles, Crowd, Oregon Review, Best of Melic Review and Spinning Jenny, in addition to online journals such as Eleven Bulls, Drunken Boat, In Posse Review, The American Journal of Print, Painted Bride Quarterly, and others.

Her book Missing Pieces is available from Ocean View Press or via the web: http://www.ravennapress.com.

She resides in Edmonds, Washington.

Summer/Fall 2002

The Crow Kathryn Rantala

The Crow
Kathryn Rantala