• Paul Anderson, “Watching Otters in Time”
• Antler, “Lip-Licking Deer Shitting Meditation,” “The Puberty of Smell,” & “Bedrock Mortar Full Moon Illumination”
• Robert Bly, “Earth and Love” & “A Ramage for Walking the Hermit“
• Jeffrey Bolt, “The Poetry of Cancer”
• Arthur Clements, “Touching Grass”
• Jeffrey Collins, “At the Astronomy Lecture”
• Jessie T. Ellison, “The Drums and Feathers”
• Richard F. Fleck, “Prairie Winter”
• Randall R. Freisinger, “Walt Whitman at Timber Creek”
• Robert Gibb, “Sitting on the Porch” & “The Fly”
• Gordon Grigsby, “Midnight and Morning” & “Water Through Trees”
• Jack Hand, “New England” & “Prayer to the Whitetail Stag”
• William Heyen, “Witness”
• Will Inman, “Loosen the Headstraps, make Sanctuary!”
• Fleda Jackson, “Chicken Willie”
• Etheridge Knight, “Black Man Haiku”
• Carl Lindner, “Butternut Squash”
• Geraldine C. Little, “The Speech of Soil”
• Priscilla Long, “To California”
• Sigurdur Magnússon, “Songur Um Sjalfan Mig” [Song of Myself]
• Elizabeth McKim, “Dawn”
• Tom Moritz, “Altar Guild”
• Jean Pearson, “Learning to Float on the Monocacy”
• Georgette Perry, “The Cat’s Death” & “Safety”
• Jim Peterson, “A Wrestler of Trees”
• James Sallis, “Animals”
• Neil Shephard, “Waking Up, Losing Self”
• Elayne Sidley, “The Olive Tree”
• Robert Spencer, “Spiders”
• Alison Townsend, “Mud Poem”
• Roberto Valenza, “Industrial Park”
• Ralph Wanderer, “New Worlds”
• Ann Williamson, “April”

• “An Artist’s Testament”
  by Auguste Rodin
  FULL TEXT

• Whitman Quotation
• Bly Quotation
• “The Workmanship of the soul…” from page 5
• Untitled from page 47
• Untitled from page 70
• Untitled from page 71

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