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AGNI 8

Contents

FictionPoetryFeatured Poet: Mekeel McBride

Fiction

The Death of Descartes
by David Bosworth
The Loneliness of the Pillow Pretender
by Mary Morris
Divining Victory
by George W. Smyth
Family Feeling
by Brian Swann

Poetry

First Words
by Martha Collins
In the Beginning There Was the End of Solitude, Beginning Again:
by Norman Dubie
Bullseye
by Norman Dukes
The King’s Windup Toy
by Russell Edson
Prayer Written After Burying a Pet Cat Killed While on a Winter Vacation in Massachusetts
by John McKernan
The Elements
by Hillel Schwartz
On Reading John Hollander’s Poem “Breadth. Circle. Desert. Monarch. Month. Wisdom. (for which there are no rhymes)”
by George Starbuck
On Reading John Hollander’s Poem “Breadth. Circle. Desert. Monarch. Month. Wisdom. (for which there are no rhymes)” Part Two.
by George Starbuck
Tuolomne
by George Starbuck
A Letter from Dick
by Carolyn Stoloff
Word
by Ruth Whitman

Featured Poet: Mekeel McBride

Poetry
Diminishing Returns
by Mekeel McBride
In a White House
by Mekeel McBride
Meditations Before and During Sleep
by Mekeel McBride
The Furniture of Finality
by Mekeel McBride
The Gravity of It, the Ground Rules
by Mekeel McBride
The Juggler Defines His Art
by Mekeel McBride
The Knife-Thrower’s Wife
by Mekeel McBride
We Bring This Weather with Us
by Mekeel McBride
AGNI 8
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Editors
Askold Melnyczuk, Sharon Dunn
Associate Editors
David Ghitelman, Tia Kimberk
Cover Artist
David Itchkawich
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