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

225

SIMONE MUENCH

Loneliness

D. NURSKE

Pennies for Flies  

VERONICA PATTERSON

She Was

FRANCES RICHEY

Bones

MAXINE SCATES

The Current

DIANNE WILLIAMS STEPP

Beach Seining Tuna Woleai Atoll

Fiction

MICHAEL HOBERMAN

Still the Jews

WILLIAM OREM

The Spiritual Exercises

Willow Springs Fiction Award

LESLIE LEEK

Fishing Killdeer Creek

Poetry in Translation

GIL JOUANARD (translated by CARLOS REYES)

Center of Gravity
Appearing Suddenly Out of Nowhere

JOSE KOZER (translated by ORLANDO RICARDO MENES)

Kafka
I’ve Come to Call Thirteen Men

EDVARD KOCBEK (translated by SONJA KRAVANJA)

Sentence

Review

DOUG MARX

Five Women Poets
Willow Springs 42

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.

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