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EDITORIAL BOARD Coordinating Editors: DeWitt Henry Peter O'Malley Editorial Staff: George Kimball Andrew Littauer Kip Crosby Bruce Bennett Steven Sands Norman Klein Art Director: David Omar White Business Manager: Tom Hargadon CONTRIBUTORS From Outside U.S.A. HUGH MAXTON has a book of poems published by Macmillan Co., attended Wesley College, Dublin, went on to Trinity College…

Out of Work

It is unmanly to be gorging a hot fudge sundae, nuts and whipped cream in the afternoon. There are only women here with their shopping. Worse than sleeping late getting up after your wife has left for work. Yesterday I recognized myself coming out of a double feature into the sunlight.

Chill Amerika

learn to cut            hit            fade learn to look out learn to run carefully try to see in the night & scream silently they don’t care      who you are learn to need it now learn to hate learn to hate learn to love your hate

Ten Notes to M–

You are asleep. The ward is quiet so I slip into your room disguised as a brain surgeon. I take your pulse. We sip the stale water. I take your pulse. This is why I write to you, this is how I began to love you: I saw you on television. I enjoyed your lecture…

My Uncle

My uncle had a birthmark a liver colored flame on his face. Who knows where that came from. I remember one photograph from 40’s Hollywood, my uncle Leo Carillo and a woman who was not my aunt for long and who was not the English Duchess my uncle could have married during the war. The…

‘it’s lonely in here’

it’s lonely in here loneliness is hard            it’s frightening to think one might always be alone. One      be alone forever there are the window sounds      wall sounds            neighbors how can we be close together      and not in one another’s arms?            the lucky people who have found lovers grow spoiled & demanding

Fiesta

Just as I was about to call your name The phone rang And since I was alone I knew it must At last be you I thought: the times are trying to change us Into trees in the valley of the shadow of joy But all the blessings which flow from memories of you Seem…

The Green Raft

The boy sat down next to them without being asked by Mrs. Tollerson to do so. He had on a black nylon bathing suit that was too tight, and his face was so tanned it almost covered up some pimples Mr. Tollerson spotted next to his nose. But his legs were white above the knee,…