Crazyhorse Number 72
 

 

Issue Number 69

Fiction
Luke Blanchard's Flash Burn the boiler tank, Nathan Birch, The Work, rifles, and the road dump.   Karen Brown's Galatea “I married William in upstate before he turned out to be the Collegetown Creeper.”

Essays
Carolyn Walker's Christian Becomes a Blur “‘Christian’s always been a little different,’ I tell Dr. Herbst, and I begin the litany that began in preschool. Resurrect the witches. Damn the bullies. Denounce the guy in my son’s head.”   Lia Purpura’s Street Scene “The eye disarrays the neatest sequence.”

Poetry
The Ovidian ruckus and the little engine behind the ears:  Mark Halliday   Tomaž Šalamun translated by Brian Henry and the author   Kaethe Schwehn   Marie Étienne translated by Marilyn Hacker   Dara Wier   H. E. Sayeh translated by Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi   Adrienne Su   Dean Young      All this and more.

 

On the Cover   Collaborative painting by the teachers and students of the N. E. Miles Early Childhood Development Center.
2007. Tempera on paper collage. 9” x 12”.
Fiction
Geoffrey Becker   Another Coyote Story
Luke Blanchard   Flash Burn
Karen Brown   Galatea
Amber Dermont   Assembling the Troops
E. V. Slate   A Foothold in the Arabian Sea
Melanie Rae Thon   Rika, Marika: Love Song for Griffin
Essay
Richard Katrovas   Stalin’s Face
Lia Purpura   Street Scene
Carolyn Walker   Christian Becomes a Blur
Poetry
Deborah Bogen   bearing on the glory of love
  Legend
Marie Étienne   Ocean / Emotion
translated by Marilyn Hacker
Megan Gannon   Deep Sea
  Definition
James Grinwis   Mostly I Entertain Ideas and Don’t Act on Them
  Of Phantoms
Paul Guest   My Arms
Mark Halliday   Three Flaws
James Haug   Reconstruction
Janet Kaplan   Marginalia
Jonas Lerman   The First Year of Everything
Wayne Miller   Hotel Life
  Poem Slipped between Two Lines by Vallejo
Steve Mueske   Queen’s Gambit Accepted
  The Black Rhino
Jude Nutter   Frank O’Hara in Paradise
Sam Reed   Summer Thunder, Colorado Plateau
Tomaz Salamun   Mother and Death
translated Brian Henry and the author   Until the Night Glazes You
H. E. Sayeh   Life
translated by Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi   Fright / Fear / Danger
  A Few Thousand Hopes of the Children of Adam
Kaethe Schwehn   Pammy and Tanka
  Me to Tanka
  In the Convent Tanka Narrates a Slideshow of John the Baptist
Gary Soto   The Dime-Store Parakeet
Adrienne Su   The Baby Years
  His Father’s Son
Ellen Wehle   Snow Falling All Morning, I Read the Egyptian “Negative Confession”
Dara Wier   16 Stickers for Peace
  Not Another Anthem
  After Being Asked about Inclinations Regarding Qualifications
Dean Young   Defib
  Post-Ovidian
  Man Overboard