27_3and4

Volume 27, No. 3 & 4

Fall & Winter 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SPECIAL FEATURE
Storm Pattern		Don Lago
FICTION
Bingo Night		Linda LeGarde Grover
Last Stand		Scott Bear Don't Walk
Schnecks		Mark Wisniewski
As Meaningless as the Origin		Bojan Louis
Moonlight, Starlight, Boogie Won't Be Out Tonight		Jenny Shank
Chrysanthemums*		Richard N. Bentley*
Orange Blossoms		Aurelie Sheehan
Nobody's Business		Victoria Patterson
Editor’s Note: An alert reader of AQR, to whom we are grateful, has pointed out numerous similarities in Richard N. Bentley’s story, “Chrysanthemums,” and the work of a well-published poet. The poet does not feel that a public apology or reparations are necessary. We respect the poet’s generosity and compassion. Nonetheless, we at AQR do feel it appropriate to apologize to both you, our readers, and to the poet, for this unfortunate event. It is the first such occasion in our 28 years of publication and we sincerely hope also the last. NONFICTION*
Proof of Identity		K. C. Eib
Louisville, 1953		Judy Copeland
Twigmas		Ben Miller
Leap Year		Holly Welker
Sitting by the River		Susan Fox Rogers
Incantation		Nina Feng
POETRY
Reception, Cascade, Inc.		David Guterson
Traffic		Elizabeth Bradfield
Regarding the Absent Heat of Your Skin on Letters I Receive While at Sea
In the Inner Harbor
The Gringo Called Ñakak	Orlando Ricardo Menes
Ghazal for Mango
Serpentine		Susanna Childress
The Woman Who Looks Up		Colette Inez
Telescopic Interior		Suzanne Buffam
Man on the Dump		Donald Platt
Landscape with a Dead Goat		Octavio Quintanilla
Sonnet for Human Smugglers
Hector
Bus to Mnajdra Temple		Cathryn Hankla
Postcards: {x, f(x), F(x)}		Mary Peelen
In a Café on Corrientes		Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi
Reflections on a Country Road		David Wagoner
Deodand		Gary Fincke
The Beheaded
Let Us Know		Knute Skinner
Words from Storm Mountain		Dick Allen
Lazarus Hearing His Name Called		Sheila Sanderson
Tobias and the Archangel Raphael		Charles Wyatt
Madonna and Child in Majesty Surrounded by Angels
Preacherbird		Martha Zweig
The Catbird as Wladslawa Szymborska		John Surowiecki
Should the Fox Come Again to My Cabin in the Snow		Patricia Fargnoli
Under the Redwoods		Danusha Laméris
While Camping at Fortescue Bay, Tasmania		Stuart Cooke
Sky-Blue, Grass-Green		Melissa Stein
The Color Zero		Pack Browning
Theodicy		Joe Wilkins
The Day We Finish Painting the Bedroom, My Wife's Father Emails Us His Suicide Note
The Protector		Thea Lawson
What I Was Thinking Before Giving the Eulogy at My Mom's Funeral		Jo-Anne Cappeluti
Miners Trapped in Crandall Canyon Mine		John Spaulding
Counting Them		Arthur Vogelsang
Afterlife: Without Apples		Susanna Mishler
Afterlife: Dust in Her Clothes