Cruelty and Conquest
by Kristin PrevalletPoetry
I.
The United States has no
quarrel with the Iraqi people; they’ve suffered too
long in silent
captivity. Liberty for
the Iraqi people is
a great moral cause, and a great strategic
goal. The people
of Iraq deserve
it; the security of
Self-criticism; Reported Missing
by Lewis WarshPoetry
Self-criticism
by Lewis Warsh
Winter 2003
I shouted & said things I didn’t mean.
I lied to people I loved.
I didn’t pay taxes for 20 years.
I told my mother that my problems were
all her fault.
Sherman Alexie
by Sherman AlexiePoetry
Late summer night on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Ten Indi-
ans are playing basketball on a court barely illuminated by the
streetlight above them. They will play until the brown, leather ball
is invisible in the dark.
Dreaming in Syndication
by Photios GiovanisPoetry
Loving architectonics multiplying.
Familial synergists.
Non-evidentiary reproductive processes.
Filmic dispossession.
Auto mechanical fibrillation.
Episodal contingencies.
This Just In
by Jerome SalaPoetry
false leads abounded today
as investigators sought to recover
lost destinies
from the societal pyre
