Crazyhorse Number 72

Crazyhorse Number 72
		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.
Cover art by ECDC

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