Spring 2010

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Fiction

Sunshine Caught Hold of Their Edges
Aasiya Mirza – United States

I’ll tell you why I didn’t recognize her. She had a giant bandage on the back of her head. And she walked into school with no hair. Nobody recognized her because no one was looking at her face. She had plaster and gauze and tape sealing up the hole. I saw her reach up under her jaw to wipe away a sneaky leak of blood skating down her neck to her collar bone.

 

Poetry

Poet Dissected
Lama Alghalib Alsharif – Saudi Arabia

You! Stop reading my thoughts,
Invading my personal space!

 

Veil
Leila A. Fortier – Japan

Be
That
Veil that
Restores and
Covets my virtue—

 

Leaving Gaza
Ronnie Glad – United States

in a tunnel bronzed
by the camera’s flash or by torches
or by the American bombs landing
above ...

Cats
Laurel Lamperd – Australia

Slender long necked cats
of Egypt
caterwauling under
the pink flowered acacia.

 

Dirge
David Radavich – United States

An ear to the ground
measures dust.