Willow Springs 42
June 1998
Poetry
FLOYCE ALEXANDER
Peasant: A Triptych
RAPHAEL C. ALLISON
The Lime
TIM BARNES
The Caves of Joaquin Murietta: Evelyn and Sandalio
The Storm that Wakes Us
HENRY CARLILE
Davanti a la Ruina
PHYLLIS K. COLLIER
The Moonframer
TOM CRAWFORD
Low IQ
Mother’s Version
PHILLIP DACEY
Taking a Shower with Daniel Ellsberg
JIM DANIELS
Digger on the Nature Trail
J. EUGENE GLORIA
White Blouses
ROBERT GREGORY
Diary
Halfway Vigil Poem
JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL
You Are Born, Everything Changes
NORBERT KARPF
Helga on a Stool
JESSICA LAMB
The Invalid’s Wife
Gift
DAVID LEE
Conversation Overheard from a Back Booth
Song E. U. Washburn Heard while Tending Roses
JOEL LONG
Brass Buttons
The Iris Cut and Buried in a Hat Box
GEORGE LOONEY
The Body of a Lover is Colloquial at Best
Even when Birds are Quiet
PHYLLIS MANNAN
Three Dreams of the Everlasting
GORDON MASSMAN
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SIMONE MUENCH
Loneliness
SHERRON NORLEN
Polyphemus
D. NURSKE
Pennies for Flies
VERONICA PATTERSON
She Was
FRANCES RICHEY
Bones
MAXINE SCATES
The Current
DIANNE WILLIAMS STEPP
Beach Seining Tuna Woleai Atoll
Poetry in Translation
DMITRY BOBYSHEV (translated by MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN)
The Beasts of St. Anthony
ANDREW BRETON (translated by SIMONE MUENCH)
The Dim Lantern
LUIS CERNUDA (translated by CARLOS REYES)
I’ve Come to See
JOSE EMILIO PACHECO (translated by SIMON WALSH)
The Octopus
CESAR VALLEJO (translated by REBECCA SEIFERLE)
Our Bread
The Black Heralds
Distant Footsteps
Fiction
MICHAEL HOBERMAN
Still the Jews
WILLIAM OREM
The Spiritual Exercises
Willow Springs Fiction Award
LESLIE LEEK
Fishing Killdeer Creek
Review
DOUG MARX
Five Women Poets
Willow Springs 42 features poetry, prose, and translation by Tom Crawford, Jesse Lee Kercheval, David Lee, George Looney, and more. The issue also includes Leslie Leek’s “Fishing Killdeer Creek,” winner of the 1998 Willow Springs Fiction Prize, and a review by Doug Marx.
