Contents v.1 n.2 Editor's Note 8 Jane Miller 11    The Flying Fish and Lily of May Two Shops Dealing in Tie-Dyed Fabrics   Susan Wheeler 15    Self and Attributes   Elizabeth Robinson 16    Home Précis The Garden's Veil Siege Perilous Behold   Bradley Paul 20    Frantic Lights, Terminal Lights The Coliseum   Jan Heller Levi 23    from One Life by Muriel Rukeyser   Muriel Rukeyser 24    from One Life   Kelly Link 26    Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose   Lance Phillips 39    3 Poems   Joel Craig 42      Zeros Yankee Can-Do Silence   Regan Good 45    My eyes have seen what my hand did   Sandy Brown 49    Boys After the Saloon Stadia After All Gauge Alcoholism Evening Light 3 The Dream That Won't Happen   Rosmarie Waldrop 57    Leonardo as Anatomist, Repeatedly   Andrew Zawacki 58    Isotopes: For Two Voices   Errol Miller 59    Autumn in the Hungry Man's Soul These Four Quarters   Regan Good 62    The Rubber Ball On Sin   Molly Peacock 66    The Luck of the Obstacle: On Form and Trauma Say You Love Me The Fare   Brenda Hillman 74    Sweeping the Interpreter's House Styrofoam Cup   Laura Mullen 76    The Tell-Tale Heart Much Less This The Excavation Errata Notes   Bruce Conner/ John Yau 84    Dream Time in Totemland: A Faxed Conversation Between Bruce Conner and John Yau   Bruce Conner 89    Inkblock Drawings   Brian Lennon 97    Notes to the Unwritten   Greg Lichtenberg 101    Life is Also Here: Toward a Manifesto of Memoir   A Partial Bibliography of Memoir 107      Mary Jo Bang 109    River Up, Rising The Dog Bark   Charles Bernstein 111    Thinking I Think I Think   Matthea Harvey 114    The Gem is on Page Sixty-Four How All Things Vestigial Gained Prestige   Geoffrey O'Brien 116    Dreaming of the Beach Boys   Mario Susko 119    The Donkey Connection   Karri Harrison 121    Arrangement in Terms of Like, Reciprocal . . . Poem with a Stolen Title   Jeffrey Croteau 123    A Few Comments About Psychosurgery Reviving the Behavior Field Four Heartaches   Noelle Kocot 126    Conversation at 5 O'Clock Hindsight is Always Best Repeat After Me A Losing War   Nick Flynn 131    "Is Your God a Dog?"   Lee Ann Brown 133    Poison of Golf's Fly-by-Night Signatures Villanelle on Being Alone 333-2451 Susie Asado Break-Down   Walid Bitar 137    One of the Thieves Heliogabalus   Julia Slavin 139    Maisie's Foot   C.D. Wright 146    from Deepstep Come Shining   Chris Stroffolino 154    Love as Fear of Love in Laughter   Chelsey Minnis 155    Primrose A Speech About the Moon Uh   Donald Revell 161    4 From "Arcady"   Reading List 165