“The Death Issue” December 2015 1

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Exile Nels Hanson My farming life is fading, memory bleached sky, no sun, old negative turning paler, near pure white now. In the Great Valley, San Joaquin, I saw Sierra Nevadas each day and people came to heal sick lungs. My grandfather’s father’s wagon near Fresno paused half an hour for one pronghorn herd to cross dirt road. I drank purest water from the well he dug. Farmer’s paradise, Garden in the Sun, it lasted just more than a century, alluvial rich soil, endless temperate growing season, rivers and tulle ponds, vast subterranean lake fed each spring by snowmelt. Will global warming kill us before high-tech wars, updated Crusades? Which catastrophe would be better for surviving flora, fauna that did no harm, valley kit fox, kangaroo rat hopping like kangaroo? Should I do more than do less wrong, stay silent, still, never stray five miles from the Pacific? All my days this 39
shore is lovely, place surely good or better than on any planets our size though experts’ last estimates predict a trillion Earth-like worlds fill the universe. Do you care about them or their inhabitants and how they compare to us? What possible difference can it make, way we’ve become since Cain slew Abel, fled east of Eden to spoil these lands of Nod? If you know better please let me know. My name is in the book. I watch grey seabirds, blue waves depart, arrive, curve dolphins leap, a pattern perfect fifty million years. 40
Page 2 and 3: A LITERARY MAGAZINE OF POETRY, INTE
Page 4 and 5: CONTENTS Editorial - p. 4 HARKview
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Page 14 and 15: do you see the role of those, of th
Page 16 and 17: going along a street in Berlin, you
Page 18 and 19: - do you find that's where your pol
Page 20 and 21: If you can get someone like that to
Page 22 and 23: different from that solitary experi
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Page 26 and 27: and something like a fox scouting f
Page 28 and 29: And I don't care what anybody says,
Page 30 and 31: things, pursuing sex, pleasure all
Page 32 and 33: sudoku, can be done in seconds”,
Page 34 and 35: alloon, and it -it's a boy actually
Page 36 and 37: pool, as “a moon affected by the
Page 38 and 39: All Kinds of Old Feeling John Burns
Page 42 and 43: Island Ryan Van Winkle when the wat
Page 44 and 45: Catcher Hugh McMillan (In his log,
Page 46 and 47: Inherent Vice Constantin Preda When
Page 48 and 49: Mother Roux Katarina Boudreaux Five
Page 50 and 51: Encore Bacchus descends from the st
Page 52 and 53: Minnows’ Ladder James Reidel Minn
Page 54 and 55: Not that I saw Him arrive or leave,
Page 56 and 57: factory, lights a cigarette. “I'm
Page 58 and 59: at 1406 today. Northwest gale 8 to
Page 60 and 61: The Organ Recital Simon Ward They d
Page 62 and 63: church's décor. Between the organ
Page 64 and 65: “Michelle,” he whispers, ”did
Page 66 and 67: Contributors KATARINA BOUDREAUX is
Page 68: RYAN VAN WINKLE is a poet, live art

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