Crazyhorse Number 73
 

 

Issue Number 69

Fiction
Gary Fincke's The Out-of-Sorts "He copyread sports, but he paid attention to every line of the article about the woman who’d kept police at bay with three poisonous snakes . . ."
Sean Ennis's Dependents the miracle of birth and a pack of stoners: "I met a kid the other day named Solomon and he was on a leash in Wal-Mart."
Amelia Kahaney's  five days with The Temp The agency, the mother-of-pearl lighter, the half-boots, the final run for the elevator.

Poetry
High degrees of “you are here” precision:  Barbara Claire Freeman   George Eklund    Ko Un translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé, Young-moo Kim, Gary Gach   Cynthia Hogue   James McCorkle   Billy Collins   Jennifer Militello   Tung-Hui Hu   Edip Cansever translated by Richard Tillinghast and Julia Clare Tillinghast   Dorothy Barresi   All this and more.

 

On the Cover   “White ’n Blue” by Tiffany Chung. 2006. Paper collage. 16” x 16”.
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
 
Fiction
John Tait
Halfrica
Sean Ennis
  Dependents
Susan Perabo
  A Proper Burial
Amelia Kahaney
  The Temp
Christine Sneed
  Clown Testimonies
Gary Fincke
  The Out-of-Sorts
Poetry
Dorothy Barresi
Arriving Late at the Birthplace of Pentecostalism
John Lennon’s Lips
Robert Bense
Notions of Exile and Sleep
Edip Cansever
Dirty August
translated by Richard Tillinghast
and Julia Clare Tillinghast
Fire
A. V. Christie
Winter Afternoons
Theme Park
Billy Collins
Aubade
(detail)
Split
Peter Cooley
Day after Tomorrow:  Weather Watch
Poem Against Poetry
Chard deNiord
My Other Body
George Eklund
Essay toward a Credo
Essay on a Cold Blue Window
Carrie Fountain
Embarrassment
Barbara Claire Freeman
Lept from the Steeple into the Blood Grass
The Closing Bell
Sarah Gridley
Anatomy of Listening
Sunrise with Sea Monsters
Bob Hicok
Sorta rah, sorta sis boom bah
Somewhere in the midst of this, picture a horse
Cynthia Hogue
With Kayaks on Bumps River
Tung-Hui Hu
Specimens under Ice
Corrections
Karla Kelsey
Little Knot Motion and Hinge
Little Knot Motion and Hinge
John Kinsella
Burning Eyes
Canto of Wrath and Schadenfreude (Inferno, Fifth Circle, 8)
Ko Un
Heavy Snow
translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé,
Young-moo Kim, and Gary Gach
Yesterday
Grave Memories
Stacie Leatherman
Flotsam
James McCorkle
To Those Precincts Crossed
Source Code
Jennifer Militello
There’s No Such Thing as a Typical Day
A Thorn in the Softest Part of the Hand
Iván Oñate
She
translated by Steven J. Stewart
The Art of Poetry
Jill Osier
Yesterday the Girl with the Sad Half-Moon Mouth Said the North Pole Could Be Anywhere
F. Daniel Rzicznek
Cardinal, Crow
Letter, Found under a Floorboard
Allison Seay
First House Elegy
Train Dream Recovery
Young Smith
Translation of a Ghalib (from no original text)
Bruce Snider
At the 2005 Midwest Taxidermy Convention
At These Speeds
Katherine Soniat
Anise
Richard Tillinghast
The Face of Sappho
David Wagoner
The Cherry Tree