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SIR 2003 Spring


Contents

Poetry

Courting — Scott Berzon
A Stroll in the Dark — Edward D. Paul
Fuscia — Susan Sindall
Ghost Diary — Lee Rossi
Red — Michael Diebert
Museum — Joseph Bathanti 
Upstate Wedding Reception — Dore Kiesselbach
Next Bus Back to Brooklyn — Leah Kornfield Friedman
Club Soda — Leah Kornfield Friedman
Poem Where I Don’t Get the Girl in the End — Matthew Guenette
Tornado — David Shumate
Some Things We Say — Elliot Wasserman
He Danced with Accordian Lungs —Jude Roy

Fiction

Coyote — Patricia Aakhus
Searching for Heroes — R.M. Kinder

Translation

Rabbit and the Wax Dummy — Charles Kleymeyer

Reviews

The Country I Come From by Norbert Krapf — Tonya Northerner
Steal Away by C.D. Wright —Anne Laker
The Baby Tree by Erin McGaw — Margaret McMullan
The Nature of Home: A Lexicon and Essays by Lisa Knopp —Laurel Smith

Art/Photography

New Harmony Pair of Pear Pairs —Jonathan Soard
Untitled — Christopher Herndon
Shadow — Carolyn Roth
Duality — Carolyn Roth
On the Banks of the Wabash — Kathryn Waters
Untitled — Bill Brown
Icon — Ann Lannert
Unshakable — Joseph Uduehi
Another Night in Hell — Lenny Dowhie
Lumber Jack — Blake Cook 
Do Not Scream — Joseph Uduehi

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