Willow Springs 46
June 2000
Poetry
MARY QUADE
Holly Hobby Dolls
GERRY LAFEMINA
Night Ending with the Sleep of Drunks and Penitents
CATHERINE STAPLES
Waking
CANDANCE BLACK
Where Blood Collects
GARY SHORT
Command
ALICE DERRY
Deposition
DAVID DODD LEE
Talking About Snow All Night
JONATHAN JOHNSON
Centripetal
PAULANN PETERSEN
In Her Palm, Perfection
DAVID RODERICK
The Curlers at Dusk
CHRIS DEMPSEY
Controlled Burn
JAMES GRINWIS
Medusa Disrobes
Obsession of Many
DAVID CITINO
Four Drown in Pool
HENRY CARLILE
Andrew
BRUCE SNIDER
The Fat Sister Speaks
MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
Blue
The Garden God’s Removal
MICHAEL CADNUM
Skins
JULIANNA BAGGOT
Discussing Sorrow with Jesus
Mother as Judas
TOM CRAWFORD
Through a Dog’s Eyes
D. NURSKE
A Night in the Men’s Shelter
In the King’s Garden
AMY NEWMAN
In the Earliest of Morning
PHILLIP TOBIN
The Rain Sonata
WILLIAM KLOEFKORN
Instrumental
JAMES GRABILL
Where Did You Say the Breaking Light Heals?
Alive
Fiction
JONATHAN PENNER
This Is My Voice
RICHARD SPILLMAN
Rain Forest Crunch
D. J. THIELKE
Along for the Ride
PAGE HODGEN
Displacement
Willow Springs Poetry Award
MICHAEL HOLLISTER
Dog Days, Autumn
Scorn
Willow Springs Fiction Award
CHRIS ALLAN MILLER
Mesmerize Me
Essay
YESHO ATIL
Shaving Grandmother
ROB TANNER
Fashionable Upstarts and the Etiquette of Cool
Review
AIMEE LABRIE
Clifford’s Blues
Willow Springs 46 features poetry, prose, and translation by Mary Quade, D. Nurske, Jonathan Johnson, Richard Spillman, and more. The issue also includes Linda Malnack’s “Dog Days, Autumn Scorn,” winner of the 2000 Willow Springs Poetry Award, Chris Alan Miller’s “Mesmerize Me,” winner of the 2000 Willow Springs Fiction Award.
