RHINO 2004

Editors’ Prizes
Editors’ Notes

Jerry Dillon Pratt So This Is

Ruth Bavetta Sixty-seven Years

Laura Bernstein-Machlay Hair

Keith Berry five beers and one oxycontin for the movies

Catherine Black Cured

Sharon Black The Ex-Collector

Jan Bottiglieri One Could Have a Cape Made Entirely of Buttons

Marion Boyer Jake, Moonlighting and Jake, Dying

Elizabeth Bradfield Why They Went

Bill Brown Coyotes, Lake County, Colorado

Mike Chasar Somewhere Tonight As the Train

Barbara Crooker The Deconstruction of Snow

Mark Cunningham The Diaphragm and The Fourth Finger

Steve Davenport Horse Opera 5

John Dickson Construction

Wendy Drexler Earth

David Edelman Bird and Ball

Danna Ephland For the Girls Who Show Up to Dance Class

Kate Evans Tilly's Birthday Party

Adrian Ayres Fisher Ghazal for a Dry Season

Geoffrey Forsyth Three Days

Joe Franchere mater dolorosa

Matthew Frank Animals

Jean Gallagher Early Photograph II

Ray Gonzalez Prophecies

Jamie Granger Yellow Tab

Arielle Greenberg Pentecost

Sara Greenslit The Pale Turn Towards Between

Kelle Groom Luckily

Therese Halscheid Excavating Prayers

Ava Leavell Haymon Escaping the Pieta

Carolyn Hembree Prose on Drowning My Dead UncleÕs Mistress

Andrea Heny Sword Dance

Wayne Hogan Con and Pro Comma

Walter Holland Ed White

Christine Horton The Rattling of Ding-DingÕs Bones or the Logistics of Drowning

Paul Hostovsky Pictures at a Reunion

Elizabeth Ann James Tinselpome #1 and Tinselpome #3

Susan Johnson Day, Memory, Lake and A Day Like No Other

Raphael Kosek Crows

Sharon Kraus Lulav

Susanna Lang Sheep

Don Langford Vivid Dreams, Antarctica

Hiram Larew Cuff

Diane LeBlanc Finding a Small White Feather in a Used Copy of

Raymond Carver's Ultramarine

Jennifer Markell Samsara

Jack Martin Without Poetry

Kathleen McGookey Expectations and Babies

Jacob Meyer We Are Ugly But We Have the Music

Carol E. Miller Send-off

Rob Morris Nepal

John S. O'Connor Eradication:  Pulling Up by the Roots

Greg Rappleye Gentians

Richard Robbins Rebels

Kathleen Rooney Pathetic Fallacy

M.A. Schaffner Pro Patria Mori

Roy Seeger A Variation on Sweetness

Dakota Shultz  Street Theology:  [The Mechanism Could Be] Autosuggestion

Kevin Simmonds The Smell of Nutmeg and The Poet, 1955

Dan Sklar Poem Here

Merry Speece Malaria, with Robert Browning

Michael Steffen " Get a Life"

George Stevenson A Christmas Poem

Samn Stockwell  Account of the Repair and At the Pharmacy

Matthew Thorburn  For Friends Who Are Married and Expecting More Babies

David Thornbrugh Going Native

Tony Trigilio Special Prosecutor

S. Brady Tucker Alpen Suiss Jungfrau

Sally Van Doren Dear

Jack Vian My Soul, he said, Is Far From Here

Angela Vogel Paul Speaks in Thessalonica

Matt Zambito And It Is And

Translations

Ioan Flora The I and A Field Sparrow
translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Alina Carac

Antonio Gedeao Man
translated by Alexis Levitin

Takamura Kotaro If Chieko
translated by John Peters

Arthur Rimbaud The Lice Nuns
translated by Diane Furtney