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C ONTENTS ( CONT.) You Make Masturbation Fun Again Anthony Castro 60 Skechers Lisa Kelly 61 My Sugar Anthony Castro 62 Cheating Becomes the Mummy Cara Corngold 63 Forgive Me Miss Chockie 64 Josephine’s Earrings M. Hayes 65 Things Fly Around My Head Sometimes Stephanie Brewer 66 I Guess Bean 66 Our Ford and Savior David Mendoza 67 Sunday School Lee Fishback 68 The Princess of Grade Five M. Hayes 69 Night in the Dawn of Yesterday Joseph Mattson 70 Gustave Courbet’s The Sea 71 Lisa Kelly Hot San Joaquin Summers Marilyn Bradford-Evans 72 Chemical Sadness Lisa Kelly 73 The Male Image: A Memoir Stephen Arathuzik 74 Dia de los muertos, dos mil tres P. J. Emery 78 Yield Lee Fishback 79 Obituary (2003) Steve Saucedo 79 Acknowledgments 80 Giving Birth 1. S TEPHANIE S OLIS To your left we see a former captive. Who, for the better part of a year, was subject to ultimate control Had no say in even what to eat, can you believe it, people. Trapped in isolation and darkness— We would never expect such recovery. I assume you can barely fathom the bravery. Let’s congratulate it on this day of freedom! The release of a prisoner. 2. To your right we see the expulsion of the parasite. The final eviction of the foreigner Who, for the better part of a year, dared to share your body Stealthily mooching everything you consumed Absorbing your energy And hitching rides without permission Or ever Pitching in for gas. INSCAPE • 5
P. J. EMERY Early Thaw In February A chinook can surprise this river Tapping the water awake With its warm fingers Inviting it to carry away Shards of its pristine mirror prison wall; Just as quickly The trickster wind will disappear Abandoning dancing blocks and chunks To collide and set And the jagged plain that forms Is matched only by A searing pain in the river’s elbow That cries for spring. S TEPHANIE B REWER Trying to Find Love in NYC In the cold crush of day and night Presun training has begun Somersaults and jumping jacks before the starter pistol A novice to the game, but intest on winning Perhaps a gold star on my lapel It sounds so masculine—lapel On a tall handsome suit jacket Or maybe a short stock army uniform . . . 2003 C ARA C ORNGOLD I want to live in a ‘40s era Western. Buttery, spread-eagle skies hugging my Broke-down, gingham-curtained cabin; my Rocking chair yawning on the front porch; Mangy, yellow dogs rolling in the muck Of our sloughed-off excesses. Chickens pecking Dirt. Elbow grease. And true grit. Actions are intent; consequences swift. We all pack equally weighted guns, Validating Justice. INSCAPE • 6 INSCAPE • 7
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