Blueline Volume XX

Editors

Editor	Rick Henry

Special Guest Editor	Maurice Kenny

Poetry Editor	Stephanie Coyne-DeGhett

Fiction Editor	Myra Gann

Art Editor	Dan Mills

Founding Editor	Alice Wolf Gilborn

Editorial Board	John Cross Robert Foster Alan Steinberg Anthony O. Tyler

Layout and Web Guru	Pete Baker

Editorial Assistant	Leilla Brooks

Interns	Jason Emerson Jamie McKenty Karen Wilson

Adirondack Water: Special Section Edited By Maurice Kenny
Raymond Pearson	67	Talk
Nathan Whiting	68	Under Them
	69	The Ascent
Gene Frumkin	70	Yellow Water
Cathy Song	71	The Child Floats in a Sea of Grass
Mary Crow	73	Fountain
Bertha Rogers	74	Sap Month
Liz Rosenberg	75	Reading
	76	Speechless
Stephen Lewandowski	77	Dream Swim
	78	Drenched
Joseph Bruchac	79	Thunder
Hettie Jones	80	Global Warming
Bill Zipse	81	Night of the Long Knives
Rachel Hadas	82	The New Jersey Transit
Paul Pines	83	Entrance to the Underworld
Barry Silesky	84	The Sauna
Alan Steinberg	85	Retreat
	86	The Waters of Zion
Clifford Trafzer	87	The Spring
Gerald Vizenor	89	Autumn
Eric Gansworth	90	Vulnerability
Rachel Guido DeVries	91	Waking
	92	Morning
John Radigan	93	Meltwater
Lorraine Wilson	95	Shallow Tub

Poetry

Maria Terrone	1	Beets
David Michael Nixon	2	Listen
	3	In Melting Mist
Dianna Henning	4	Cashew Cones
Gwen Monohan	9	Meltdown
	10	Cider Press
Zdena Hyblova Heller	11	Animal Lessons
Ted Olson	13	Swallows
Linda Batt	14	Snake Skin
R. L. Reddinger	20	April Burning
Judi Salsburg	21	Waking in a Tent Beside Pleasant Lake
Robert Schuler	22	May Inventory, the Red Cedar River
	23	July Landscape
	24	Cover
Eric Ormsby	32	Boundary Lines
	33	Sycamore
	34	My Grandfather's Pocket Watch
Alice Gilborn	36	Dakota Ridge
Sherry Fairchok	37	The Other Side
Simon Perchik	38	*
Anne Mausolff	42	June on Whiteface
Martha Highers	43	Heat Lightning
	46	Waitress
Allan Peterson	48	This is Plenty
Ron Giles	49	Independence Day on Coffee Ridge
Kaye Bache-SNyder	53	Anniversary Rite
Charles Rafferty	54	In the Kittatinny Mountains: July 18, 1993
Askold Skalsky	58	Dawnbreak at Wells Ridge
James Fowler	59	Thunderstorm over Narragansett Bay
Sarah Van Arsdale	60	The Cottage on the Lake
Elizabeth Day Garton	61	Perch to Perch
	62	For Leaving or Landing
Michele Mitchell-Weal	97	The Scottish Blanket
	99	Gray
David Chura	101	On Schroon River at 40
Jeff Hardin	102	Measure for Jess Harper
Mark McKain	106	The Train Screams Past
E. G. Burrows	108	The Teacher-Bird
Judith Wisniewski	109	The Lighter
	110	The Panama Hat
Laura Rodley	111	Permissible Partner
Thomas Kretz	114	Cultural Attache
Gaylord Brewer	115	The Man Who Married the WInd Divorces
Lee Slonimsky	116	Dragonflies in Love
Jo NElson	117	Chantey
Kristin Camitta Zimet	118	The Climb
James Neylon	119	The Poem the Pomegranate was the Least About
M. J. Iuppa	121	Imagine your village
	122	Awake
	123	Anything but empty
	124	Face to face
Matthew J. Spireng	131	Late August (foe Cece)
	132	Having to Put Down a Horse Stricken by Colic (for Kayo)
Brad Clompus	133	Phantom Pond
Claire Keyes	135	The Question of Rapture
	137	Mountain Farm
Jeffrey Clapp	142	Walking the Glacier
Charles Sabukewicz	144	Fallen Pears
	145	Beaver Cut
	146	The Swallows at Coles Pond
Dixie Partridge	147	Ice Form, Remembered (Late, Waiting for a Teenaged Son)
Paul Bennett	148	Winter Solstice
Marjorie Maddox	152	Ithaca Winter
G. Timothy Gordon	153	Calligraphy
Ann Silsbee	156	White-Out
	157	Leavings

Prose

Stephanie Coyne-Deghett	Cover
		Frontispiece
Mary Cantline	5	Steer in Field
	6	River Reflecting
	7	No Title
	8	No Title
Paul Davison & Dals Hobson	15	Five Rivers Project
Lucky deBellevue	39	No Title
	40	No Title
	41	No Title
Lisa K. Erf	50	Kitchen
	51	Other Words I Wish to Know: A Picture of a Boy with a Microscope
	52	Second Youth
Shelley Himmelstein	55	Downward Curve
	56	Balcony Pine
	57	Cosso/Viale
Laurie Hogin	103	Five Game Stew with WIld Mushrooms and Particulate Lead
	104	Daphne
	105	Ophelia
Suzanne Langelier-Lebeda	112	Tuscan Vineyard
	113	Last Ones
Dennis McIlroy	120	December Exodus
William Newman	125	St Law
	126	Le Chic
R. Paul Saphier	139	I, Eye
	140	Landwaves
	141	Origens Mediate
Pat Sennett	143	Irreconcilable Differences
Larry Webb	149	Kansas
	150	Moon and Sand
	151	Speckcinder
	154	Portraits
Bob Witz	155	Faces

Sally Honenberger	25	A Proper Upbringing
LUWanda Cheney	127	Nobody Asks Me

Reviews

For A Modest God	Eric Ormsby	158	Jason Emerson
RELAX YR FACE	Albert Glover	160	Maurice Kenny
Field Notes from the Northern Forest	Curt Stager	162	Alan Steinberg

Art