About the Cover

Blueberries picked near Kwethluk, Alaska create an autumn offering.

©2008 Clark James Mishler

AQR Vol. 25, No. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2008

Table of Contents

Drama

Fiction

Nonfiction

Poetry

Ex-Monk at the Packing House, Burlee Vang
When the Dead Stop By, Joan I. Siegel
Blood, Joan I. Siegel
Angiogram of a Brain, Carol Quinn
Study of Elsie as Window a Bird Smashes Against, Tom Christopher
New Year’s Eve, Catie Rosemurgy
Smokefall at Smoke Rise, Robert Carnevale
Heaven and the Fallen World, Eva Saulitis
Song of the Jealous Bird, Eva Saulitis
I Found a One-Eyed Horse, Rachel Mehl
Meat-Eaters, Gary Fincke
Odysseus, Thom Satterlee
Frieda Lawrence: Blood, Lust, Desperation, Sue Walker
The Remorse of Narcissus, Bruce Bond
Watson and the Shark, John Bensko
A Personal Apocalypse, Jennifer Gresham
Fimbulwinter, Maggie Smith
Twentieth Century, Maggie Smith
Green-Striped Melons, Jane Hirshfield
Lump, Julie L. Moore
Blind Pink, Suzanne Underwood Rhodes
Skipping Stones, Heather Kirn Lanier
The Burnt Field, Kythe Heller
Motor Imagery, Beth Bachmann
Des Plaines, Illinois 1978, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Day’s End on Eel Pond, Mary Stewart Hammond
Elegy that Returns with Souvenirs, Erika Meitner
To the Mistress of the Master of the Female Half-Lengths, Michael Salcman
The Dead Guy Clears the Air About Roadkill, William Notter
July 8, Destin, Jesse Lee Kercheval
Beneath a Somber Moon, Dan Stryk
My Father’s Left Hand, David Bottoms
My Father’s Brother, William Lychack
The Way a Dog Meets the Day, Diane Seuss
Heel, Nance Van Winckel
The Sleepwalker Makes Plans, Sigman Byrd
Apotheosis of the Sleepwalker, Sigman Byrd
The Deft Touch of Angels, John Rybicki
Polar Explorer # 8, Elizabeth Bradfield
Crocker Land, Elizabeth Bradfield