Volume I Spring 2006
STAFF
Executive Editor
Jessica Greening-Loudermilk
Associate Editors
Christina L. Garza
Christina Mistie
Jeremy Richard
Contributing Editors
C.S. Allbright
Stephanie A. Amsel
Chad Clayton
Luke Collins
Catherine Hauer
Alfonso E. Mata
Linda Winterbottom
Advisory Board
Norma E. Cantú
Catherine Kasper
Venetia June Pedraza
CONTENTS
POETRY
C.S. ALLBRIGHT
All-American Lunch
Another Card for Angie
Zones
MATTHEW ALLEN
fell yet unfallen
green plains fuse beneath
I do not know how to weigh
I miss the metaphor
STEPHANIE A. AMSEL
La Specola
Orchids
Perfume
JESSICA NICOLE BROWN
Quiet
COLTER BROWN
introspectator
JOHN P. BUENTELLO
Shadows and Dust
Tempered Sight
MARISSA CARDENAS
No Sweat, No Blood, Just Tears
CHAD CLAYTON
MAX FERNANDEZ
Hail Mary
The Exodus of New Orleans
CHRISTINA L. GARZA
At Eighty
Bucla Fina
Luna, My Luna
Papo
JESSICA GREENING-LOUDERMILK
Between Hurricanes
Late Twenties
The Speed of the World
To My Father, Who Dies Every Day
What We Forget
CATHERINE HAUER
Erode
Ghazal III
JJ HENDERSON
Lust
ROBERT A. LOPEZ
Bacon
CHRISTINA MISTIE
Back in San Antonio, Unpacking
Planting the Bones
The Live of Birds
CANDELARIA ESCALANTE NIEVES
La Muerte
BARBARA PEREZ
Parable of the Cave
Staying Rational
LENORE PERRY-SAMANIEGO
Grandma Grace
JEREMY RICHARD
addict
consecration
orpheus
the wrong side of an empty bed
RHONDA WILLIAMS
Petition
LINDA WINTERBOTTOM
this is
DEVIN ZIMMERMAN
Dysthymia
In Grass
ART
JESSICA NICOLE BROWN
In a Field Dreaming
MARIO LONGORIA
Canyon Observatory
Chimayo Shrine
Grand Vista
BRANDON LOUDERMILK
rice
subway
tree
PAULINE MAGALLANES
Burning Daylight
Kitchen Comfort
Photo Shoot
PROSE
MICHELLE A. GRAJEDA
Jesus and Jolene
JESSICA JUNQUEIRA
MICHAEL G. RICHARDS
Why Wait?
ADOLPH MARTIN SUAREZ
Junkie
THANKS TO
Charlene Allbright, Wendy Barker, Marissa Cardenas, Carey Clack,Stephen G. Kellman, Bonnie Lyons, Pauline Magallanes, Elvia Niebla,Fred Williams, Venetta Williams, Kristina Wolf, and Norma E. Cantú