Crazyhorse Number 70

 

Issue Number 69

Fiction
Peter Short and “The Hawthorne Curve”: “Dad claimed no possessions. What he had in his life was nothing you could count. He said this to me after Mom’s funeral and I believed him.”  Rob Phelps’ chronicles of “The Neighbor War”: “‘I’m not gay,’ Julian explained, ‘but my army is.’”

Creative Nonfiction

“Migration”—Mark Krewatch’s alter ego pitches everything he's got to the glossy L.A. monthlies.

Poetry

Dreams of trying to remember:  Kerri Webster  John Ashbery  Billy Collins  Aimee Nezhukumatathil  Marvin Bell  Tomas Tranströmer translated by Michael McGriff with Mikaela Grassl  Sarah Vap  David Wojahn  Stacie Cassarino  George Eklund: “Every breath is an apocalypse”  And many more.

 
On the Cover
  Untitled (detail) by Hiroe Saeki. 2005.
2005. Pencil, acrylic on paper. 32 1/2” x 70 1/2”.
Courtesy of the artist and Taka Ishii Gallery.
Fiction
 
Rumaan Alam
  September Sundays Are Always the Worst
Gwendolyn Knapp
  Surfers in Iowa
Steve Mitchel
  Dog People
Rob Phelps
  The Neighbor War
Peter Short
  The Hawthorne Curve
Creative Nonfiction
 
Mark Krewatch
  Migration
Poetry
 
John Ashbery
  The Binomial Theorem
Casuistry
Marvin Bell
  The Method
Dream of a Dream
Days of Superman
Stacie Cassarino
  Northwest
Zero at the Bone
Charlie Clark
  Reckoning
Billy Collins
  Little Myth
The English Major
My First Memory
Steven Cramer
  Self-Portrait with Insomnia, Rocks, and Fireflies
George Eklund
  Into the Place Our Blood Made
Adam Fell
  At Acadia National Park, the Morning of Peter Jennings' Death
Eulogy for the Badger Army Ammunition Plant, Baraboo, WI
Vincenzo Guiniggi
  Tumulus Anni Morientis: The Tomb of the Dying Year
translated by Derek Mong
 
Bob Hicok
  The right kind of fools
James McCorkle
  Barn Fire
Michael McFee
  Ticks
Wayne Miller
  The Book of Props
Dear Villon,
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
  Devil's Tongue
Richard Robbins
  Why They Don't Read Us
Matthias Casimir Sarbiewski
  Fortis Est Ut Mors Dilectio: Song of Songs 5.6
translated by Derek Mong
 
Floyd Skloot
  Haircut
Gary Soto
  Salt
Tomas Tranströmer
  November in the Former DDR
translated by Michael McGriff
with Mikaela Grassl
  The Cuckoo
Two Cities
Sarah Vap
  Instructions for the Sarah-nelle
Mark Time
Miles Waggener
  Horse
On Those Mountains Night Is Falling
Kerri Webster
  If We Are Pretty Ghosts. Hammered In
David Wojahn
  Tristia: Sam Walton in Hell
Napping On My 53rd Birthday