RHINO 2005

Editors’ Prizes
Editors’ Notes

Wayne Hogan The Frog

Minati Singh Ode

J. A. Frazee The Laundromat

Kelli Russell Agodon In the 70’s, I Confused Macrame and Macabre

Kelly Lenox Allan So You Want to Go Spelunking

David Appelbaum Locust

Gabriel Arquilevich All of It

Sarah Bartlett Exodus

Sandra Beasley Things Kept

Mark Bennion On the Edge of It

Michelle Bonczek The Perfect Mate

Nancy Burke Long Division

Cullen Bailey Burns Letter after the Revolution

W.E. Butts The Blessing

Jenna Cardinale The Legacy of William Jefferson Clinton As Suggested by Gertrude Stein

Sten Carlson Prayer for the Royal Palm Hotel

Mark Cunningham Black-capped Vireo and White-eared Hummingbird

John Davis Recruiting Poster

James Doyle A Giddy Fork in the Road

Denise Duhamel Questions from the Translator and Back Cover

Joy Dworkin After Osip Mandelshtam

Kathleen Ellis Early Exile

Jeannine Hall Gailey Through the Looking Glass

Jack Granath Parting Salvo #37

Kate Greenstreet If water covers the road

Daniel Gutstein Monsieur Pierre Est Mort

J. Allen Hall Portrait of My Mother as the Republic of Texas

Eva Heisler Midwinter Feast

Michael Hettich Wash and Interior

Jannett Highfill Morning and Interval

Conrad Hilberry Blood Work

Nathan Hoks The Gathering

Karla Huston &
Cathryn Cofell Diphthongs and Pigeon Toes

Larry Janowski White Wolf on Red Harley

Kelli Kaufmann Inflections of Ordinary Things
Andrew Kozma The Engagement
Joel Long Laundry

Patricia McMillen After Bei Dao

Wendy Mnookin Visiting My Parents

Aimee Nezhukumatathil How the Robin’s Breast Became Red

James Pate A Hand Hanging on to the End of Day

Lynn Pattison Like Riding a Bike

Brittany T. Perham My Father, Leaving

Jennifer Perrine Sadie Imagines God

Susan Blackwell Ramsey Louise Erdrich Learning Ojibiwemowin

Kirsten Rian Orbit

Sarah Ruhlen Vow Breaking

Michael Scofield War Again

Joan I. Siegel My Mother’s Piano

Martha Silano I Don’t Know What I Want, Only that I’m Desperate for it

Barry Silesky The System

Lusia Slomkowska Trade

Rick Smith crisis:

Lianne Spidel Paper Hats

John Sweet untitled poem on the day my son tells me he hates me for the first time

Judith Taylor We Talk

Dawn Tefft Megalopolis

Georgia Tiffany Underwater

Barbara Tomash red clouds brightest and furrow sustenance ancestors

Jen Town The Old Man Wants to Learn to Swallow Swords

Gale R. Walden Dead Poet Houses

Valerie Martt Wallace Jezebel Remembering

Tom Whalen Strange Alleys

Mike White Invitation and Ars Poetica

Jennifer Willoughby Rules for Human Resources

Katia Zalkind Pratt Beach in March

Karen Zealand Substitution

Translations
Anonymous Young Girl’s Lament
translated by Sandra Cookson

Robert Desnos The Sky’s Song
translated by Simone Muench

Herberto Helder Untitled
translated by Alexis Levitin

Juan Ramon Jimenez Already Dark
translated by David Stock

Sandor Kanyadi Triptych to Romanian Poet Nichita Stanescu
translated by Paul Sohar

Maria Rosa Lojo Steadfast Love
translated by Brett Alan Sanders

Grzegorz Musial Circulus Mundi and Spring Time in Pomerania: for B.
translated by Barbara F. Lefcowitz

Toon Tellegen Three Untitled poems
translated by Judith Wilkinson