Issue 10

May 2012

Table of Contents

Editor: O.P.W. Fredericks

Assistant Editor: Daniel Milbo

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Cover

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bed Bath  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Wonderland  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Asperger’s Syndrome: Day Fifteen  . . . . . . . . . .

The Black Button  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Biggest Gift to the Janitor  . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Spring Pink (photograph) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Editors Choice:

The Voice of

Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas . . . . . . . . . .

    There is no sleep for one who prays . . . . . . . .

    Unborn Offspring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    The Cancer Diagnosis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    Child Interrupted  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Holding On  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Holding onto Innocence (charcoal drawing) . . .

Still for reaping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A Lifetime with Death  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Purple Suspenders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Poet in Residence Essay Series

    Christine Klocek-Lim

Evolution into Insight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Preface to Poetic Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Scar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Innocent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Iridescence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

After Thoughts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

O.P.W. Fredericks & Daniel Milbo

John Davis Jr.

Ed Bennett

Jackie Fox

John Davis Jr.

Richard King Perkins II

Danny P. Barbare

Pat St.Pierre

O.P.W. Fredericks

Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas

Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas

Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas

Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas

Tammy Daniel

Emily Lasinsky

Murray Alfredson

Stephen Gilchrist

Krisztina Fehervari

Susan Kelley

Christine Klocek-Lim

O.P.W. Fredericks

Christine Klocek-Lim

Christine Klocek-Lim

Christine Klocek-Lim

O.P.W. Fredericks & Daniel Milbo