Cover Art: Chessie Monks

The L - Spring 2007

Letter from the Editor

Poetry and Prose

Elyse Renee Alexopoulos
Lustrous Heart

Mike Baptist
Visions of Eden

Melanie Bishop
To the muscle that resides in the chest

Jennifer Blakeman
Apple Eaters

Timothy Boston
She Nearly

Addya Bhowmick
Falling Short of Seduction

Casey Cahill
Like Job on the First of Spring

Tom Jay Cinq-Mars
The Reason Why

Lauren Cullin
Quietly Waiting

Kate Helen
Sex is the New Kiss

Joseph Eveld
Atlas

Jason Jedrusiak
Cosmopolitan
Un-united States of America

Erika Keith
Becoming

Jessica LaBreque
Calf to cow, ashes to Atom

Emily Lemiska
Connection
Swallowed

Birgit Kvamme Lundheim
Exhibition

Laura Mangano
Slippage

Laura O’Regan
Reunion

Jessica Palmer
Dodgeball

Stuart Peterfreund
Mel Blanc
Table of Portents

Gary Price
Dirty Vestament of a Clean Temp

Dan Schwartz
2.27.07
Achievement

Matt Shutzer
Frozen Flowers
Starbucks Poems
The Absent Child (Carnivore)

Thomas J. Thompson
The Soldier

Gregory Whitney
They Saved Gerald Ford's Brain

 

 

 

Yendor D. Wolf
Haiku

Lauren Wood
Cold

Abby Zorbaugh
The Next Chapter

Prose

Addya Bhowmick
A Confession

James Concannon
Swing

Nikki Frankel
I Could Save You

Abigail Hawkins
Nondescript

Kyle Kerr
They Say

Natalie Schack
Paint and Walls

Evan Umansky
The Terminator's Guide to Picking Up Chicks

Art

Sam Andrews
Red Brassiere on Bedroom Floor

Christine Benedix
Imprisoned
Iron Shadows

Melanie Bishop
Hero

Gina Bollenback
Bird's View

Michael Cersosimo
Where...Nightmares Come From

Jason Jedrusiak
smile for the camera

Birgit Kvamme Lundheim
Detail from Ladder

Diana Mai
Inverse

Laura Mangano
Banister Balance
Dogwood Sky Web
Twin Reflection

Megan McCormick
Casual Luxury
Still Whole, I Interest Nobody
The Deadly Sin of Pride

Chessie Monks
Color Wonderful
The L
Shadow

Josh Olejarz
Untitled

Manny Sasanian
Curves

Jesse Silverberg
Foil Redux