Crazyhorse Number 74

 

Issue Number 69

Fiction
Randy DeVita  Guarding Mary  Tri-State Security seeks self-help: “04:00: Mobile patrols suspended.”   Marjorie Celona  This Is When I Love You the Most  Bobbie sneaks into Mr. Radcliffe’s office.

Essay
Kat Meads  What Lies in Closets  “The night the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped the heiress...”—the Patty Hearst tell-all files revisited.

Poetry
“Edges pretend that / one thing ends”—Gail Wronsky  Kevin Ducey  Daneen Wardrop  Kevin Clark  Emmanuel Moses translated by Marilyn Hacker  Albert Goldbarth  Marianne Boruch  Fabio Morábito translated by Kathleen Snodgrass  Deborah Bogen  Adrian C. Louis  Christopher Howell  Leon Stokesbury  Peter Kline  All this and more.

Cover art by David Ellis
 
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On the Cover
panel from Flow by David Ellis. 2007. Silver enamel and black gesso on tobacco-stained paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Fiction
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Pertussis
Marjorie Celona
This Is When I Love You the Most
Randy DeVita
Guarding Mary
Becky Hagenston
Midnight, Licorice, Shadow
Steven Schwartz
Blockage
Essay
Kat Meads
What Lies in Closets
Poetry
Seth Abramson
Idiot House
The Home-field
John M. Anderson
Line Drawing: Thurber’s Brother Shoots Him in the Eye with an Arrow
Church Vault
Hadara Bar-Nadav
I Would Have Starved a Gnat
The Angle of a Landscape
Deborah Bogen
What We Know about Ghost Images
Using a Blue Willow Pattern, the Anesthesiologist Explains the Procedure
Marianne Boruch
In the hospital parking lot
The mosquito brings you blood, it
Kevin Clark
Approaching Days
Kevin Ducey
relativity
Cathar Kinks
Michele Glazer
Trace
Albert Goldbarth
Party 2006
K. A. Hays
Psalm against a Rapture
Isaac in the Mosaic at San Vitale
Christopher Howell
Another Letter to the Soul
Marsh
Nicolas Hundley
The Blood You Let
Fathering the Machine
Peter Kline
Unfathomer
Insomnia
Lance Larsen
Owner’s Manual
To Jouissance
Adrian C. Louis
Respite
Alessandra Lynch
“Who mothered you? Silence and grass.”
 “First, air and light suffuse us—daylily, oriole, dust—”
Beth Marzoni
After Viewing Cold, Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991) by Cornelia Parker
Fabio Morábito
Pompeii Quartet
translated by Kathleen Snodgrass
Emmanuel Moses
Mr. Nobody As The Last Mountaineer
translated by Marilyn Hacker
you will not know
And I Killed Them All
David Petruzelli
Lost Hopper
Michael Robins
In This Quiet Shop of Song
The Birds of Massachusetts Bay
Leon Stokesbury
Midway
Rosalynde Vas Dias
Silent Defense
Jeff Walker
Itchy Is As Scratchy Does
Daneen Wardrop
Tracks, Spread
Hare, Saint
Rows, Own
Gail Wronsky
Beneath the Ganges Where it is Dark
Hatching in the Eucalyptus Tree
Go On, Sure, Why Not
When This Warm Scribe My Hand