CONTENTS

Masthead

Benefactors

Editor's Note

Poetry

Fiction

Nonfiction

Interviews

Contributors' Notes

21

Brian Dickson

Through the unfurled pumpkin patch memories bury with a tremulous echo. I swear I saw the vine borer pierce the surface in its rage tearing at pieces rounding corners of rows searching for the word ripe. Blackened gourds turned from the thought. What withered from you, what we ate, chased, the reels that spool and break.