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A literary magazine named after the Vedic god of fire

A literary magazine named after the Vedic god of fire

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2007

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Contents

Fiction Essays Poetry

Fiction

The Instructions

by Eric D. Anderson

by John J. Clayton

The Water Garden

by Louise Jarvis Flynn

by Frances Hwang

Carry Me Father No More

by Giulio Mozzi

Translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris

Do Not Hate Them Very Much

by Matthew M. Quick

The Mysterious Remnant

by James Warner

by Katie Williams

Poetry

“A stork has stabbed holes”

by Annemette Kure Andersen

Translated from the Danish by Thom Satterlee

“The way the walls . . .”

by Annemette Kure Andersen

Translated from the Danish by Thom Satterlee

by Joelle Biele

Wattenmeer Means Cottonsea

by Joelle Biele

Margaret MacDonald

by Annie Boutelle

The He-Woman of Mull

by Annie Boutelle

by Jericho Brown

by Stacie Cassarino

by Malcolm de Chazal

Translated from the French by Karina Borowicz and Ben Admussen

by Malcolm de Chazal

Translated from the French by Karina Borowicz and Ben Admussen

by Malcolm de Chazal

Translated from the French by Karina Borowicz and Ben Admussen

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by Malcolm de Chazal

Translated from the French by Karina Borowicz and Ben Admussen

Mozart’s Starling

by Robert Cording

At Cadoin with Willem at Three

by Carol Ann Davis

by Sally Dawidoff

by Chard DeNiord

Rapture & The Big Bam

by Matt Donovan

“Perhaps We Are What We Want to Remember”

by Matt Donovan

by Carolina Ebeid

A Russian Guide

by Georges Godeau

Translated from the French by Kathleen McGookey

Gallo-Roman Site

by Georges Godeau

Translated from the French by Kathleen McGookey

by Georges Godeau

Translated from the French by Kathleen McGookey

by Georges Godeau

Translated from the French by Kathleen McGookey

by Georges Godeau

Translated from the French by Kathleen McGookey

by Melissa Green

Like the Back of My Hand

by Benjamin S. Grossberg

Aphorisms Regarding Impatience

by Ellen Hinsey

by Jeff Hoffman

by Jean Hollander

by Jean Hollander and Katherine Hollander

I Cannot Name Him

by Kimberly Kolbe

Warming the Bed

by Lance Larsen

by Shara Lessley

Antonia Refuses the Nectarines

by Jeffrey Levine

by John Maloney

Self-Help for the Lost and Found

by Clay Matthews

by John McAuliffe

The Fan Belt Snapped

by Joan Michelson

Café at Rapallo

by Eugenio Montale

Translated from the Italian by Mary Jane White

Days After the Tsunami, 2005

after the Foxhead

by James Norcliffe

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by Simon Perchik

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by Simon Perchik

by Tomasz Różycki

Translated from the Polish by Mira Rosenthal

by Tomasz Różycki

Translated from the Polish by Mira Rosenthal

Totems and Beads

by Tomasz Różycki

Translated from the Polish by Mira Rosenthal

The Last of the Ptolemies

by Kate Lynn Schirmer

by Emily Scudder

Do Not Desire Me, Imagine Me

by Mary Szybist

by Kristen Tracy

Rain at the Zoo

by Kristen Tracy

by Arthur Vogelsang

The Argonaut Rose, Fleeing with the Sailors, Leaving the Body of Her Brother Behind

by Diane Wakoski

by Josh Wallaert

Report of the Witness

by Jonathan Weinert

God in the Details

Waking, Working

by Nance Van Winckel

Translated from the Chinese by Ye Chun

Translated from the Chinese by Ye Chun

2007

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