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Winter 2005

From the Editors

Pam Houston
interview

Mary Morris
interview

"Sleeping with Jesus"
fiction by
Kristin Kearns

"Sunrise"
fiction by
Roselle Chen

"Catching Flies"
fiction by
Emily Ethridge

"San Francisco in the 1990s"
fiction by
Chris Lombardi

"Ed Got a Job"
fiction by
Russell Rowland

"The 1920s"
"I Was Wrong... She Died in Her Grave"
"Area Hospital / Girl Shy"
poetry by
Brandon Downing

"I Dream a Highway"
"Suspension"
poetry by
Maggie Smith

"Light of Castries"
poetry by
Fraser Sutherland

"The Galaxies in My Veins Still Waltzing"
"Pent Up in That Endless Coliseum of Stars"
"Knee Deep in the Cosmic Overhelm"
"Breath Painting"
paintings by
Mia Pearlman

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I Was Wrong... She Died in Her Grave...

I WAS WRONG… SHE DIED IN HER GRAVE…
If his wife thought he would freak out at
Home he would do it at work… it was tossed
At me, him. What’re they
Doing in the cellar anyway, Holmes? It’s
Clean enough for laps, my organs made
                                        of wax

It started again. My coke went flat, it was the best.
Got a picture of him with Marilu Henner…you right.
Peace out to all those motherfuckers livin’ in the woods,
Name, with their silly sisters, going “Look at
My new buttons, signed, Mama.” People don’t change,
It’s usually in short novels, that’s,

In paintings: people hug. Normally, they are the poor.
Always pining for the lab girl. “Mites were in the bed.”

S.T.C.

© Brandon Downing

Brandon Downing is originally from San Francisco, where he was co-founder and director of Blue Books, a non-profit literary bookstore and performance space in that city's Mission District. Since 2000 he has lived in New York, where he works as an exhibit designer and researcher and spends many weeks on planes. A photographer, collagist, and sometime filmmaker, as well as a poet, his books include The Shirt Weapon (Germ Monographs, 2002) and the soon-to-be-released Dark Brandon (Faux Press, 2005).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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