CONTENTS

Editorial 1

Michael HAMBURGER Yet Again 3 Homo Sapiens – Homo Faber – Homo Rapiens 5

Anne BERESFORD The Last Signpost 7 Afterwards 8

Ruth O’CALLAGHAN Shore to Ship 9 Legacy 9 Incident Involving Sand 10 Not Only the Fish 12 Elsewhere 13

Peter DE VILLE Giacin 14 Shine 15

Claire CROWTHER Mastery 16 Caught by Workmen 16 Coinage 17

Michael GERRARD Ιξος 18

Jeffrey CARSON Archilochos’ Lyric Cry 22

ARCHILOCHOS, translated by Jeffrey Carson 24

Vassilis ZAMBARAS The Weight 27 The Spiritual Nature of Anticipation 27 Skid Row 28

Jordan SANDERSON Laces Pulled Tightly Burst the Seams Revealing a Slender Oblique 29

John LEVY Eat 30 I’m Writing a Poem about Death 30 Family Get-Together 31 “Do not disterb or els” 31 Fireworks on New Year’s Eve 32 Vacant Lot Where Empress Once Stood 32

Maureen ALSOP Sedimentary 34 At the Table of Longing 35

Bruce LADER Gravity 36

Andrew GROSSMAN Embarkation from Langley Air Force Base 37

S. P. FLANNERY Birth 38 Sacred Baboon 39

Mario SUSKO Falling Action 40

James R. WHITLEY Raw 42 Another Raven-Haired Imbroglio 43

Leah FRITZ Ozymandius Defends Himself 44

J. Marcus WEEKLEY A Stranger Leaves a House 46

Dolores GUGLIELMO In a Japanese Tea Room 47

Ray SUCCRE Courtesy 48

Luis BENÍTEZ On the Obstinate 49 A Wasp Crossed the Hymen of the Window 50 Caricatures 51

Glen CAVALIERO A Singing Undertone 52

Mary O’DONNELL The Bare Branch 57 Tattoo 58 Ritual of the Blackberry 59

Paul PERRY The Lady with the Coronet of Jasmine 60

Leo LAVERY Poem 69 Hospital Visit 69

David GREENSLADE Fly (Serromyia femorata) 70

Darran ANDERSON The Archangel 72

David MALCOLM only / what arrives 74

Igor KOLAROV Levantine Night Inside 79

Tammy ARMSTRONG Rogersville: Garage Man’s Daughter back from the City 80 Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia 81

Shelley McINTOSH Sweet frottage 82

Norman JOPE Ahal 83 Navigation: The Seven Daughters of the Night 84 Ashab 85

Martin BENNETT Portrait 86 Free Ticket 87

Michael THORP Horse Trough 88 The Black Mountains 88

Carrie ETTER Divining for Starters (22) 89 Memory Work 89

Daniel PENDERGRASS The Refugee 90 Istanbul 91

Stephen WATTS Brick Lane Mela Poem 94

Christopher GUTKIND American Street 100

Anne BLONSTEIN through the ephemeral bonds above 107

Richard MARTIN Recycling 108

Toon TELLEGEN, translated by Judith Wilkinson At Night 109 She Walks 109 Now was it you who trampled on me 110 The Gift 110 They bumped into each other 111 There is no way back 111

Mark CASSIDY Holiday Home 112 Engaged Tone 114 Sunflower 115 Erosion 116

Brian WILLEMS Untitled (Tree) 117

Hsien Min TOH Mind’s Eye 118 The Elements 119 The Art of Sacrifice 125

Oleg PROKOFIEV, translated by Graham High & Joan Smith Five Mountain Elegies 126

Tatjana LUKIC sunball 129 mort st, east row, canberra 130

Andrew SLATTERY Australia Sky 131 Convertia 131

Laurie DUGGAN Ten Days 132

Leah FRITZ “save the language from poetic tongue” 138

Clive FAUST Customary Relationship 148 The Feast of O-Bon (pron. “Or-Bon”) that is, All Souls’ Night 149 The Avenue of Trees 150

Robert James BERRY Eating History 151 Discoverers 152 Big Moon 153 Spellbound 154 Nemesis 154

Iain BRITTON The Advertisement 156

Peter PESSL, translated by Mark Kanak Double Union 157 In the Boudoir 157

Monika RINCK, translated by Mark Kanak space flight 158 my strip of the week 158

Elizabeth PESSL-ROSSI We Were Divine 159 Thondorf, Austria, September 2003 159 I love the way you sleep 160

Ulli FREER Burner for Jackson Mac Low 161

Ulli FREER / Scott THURSTON Beyond the Frame 169

Scott THURSTON Ulli Freer: Space Is the Place 180

Notes on Contributors 188