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Volume 1 Issue 23 CutBank 23 Article 2

Fall 1984

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Novel Excerpts Ralph Beer from The Blind Corral: Summerfield 9 Mr. Spock calms an over wrought Captain Kirk 12 The Horses Running 16 etry Walter McDonald Rafting the Brazos 22 Jack Heflin The Sawmill 26 Eddie Silva On My Father’s Gun Rack is a Japanese Sword 27 Rita Dove Obedience 28 A ircraft 29 Patricia Goedicke The Rain Between CIs 30 J.D. Smith Scrub Pines 32 Margins 33 Hillel Schwartz M ax the Tire King 34 June Frankland Baker Attending the Garage Sale 35 Beatrix Gates Falling 36 Douglas Myers Halves of One Abstraction 39 Carol Cavallaro Giotto’s Maesta 4 0 Marjorie Power Her Clues 42 Lawrence Millman Parliament of Ravens 43 Donnell Hunter Turkeys 44 Ron McFarland Spring Comes to the Clearwater 46 Christian Knoeller Entering the Desert 47 Chard deNiord The Death o f a Cow 48 Victoria McCabe Needy Relatives 50 Jim Daniels Still Lives in Detroit, #5 52 Hannah Stein The Game of “Statues” 53 Randy Phillis The End of the Line 54 Margaret Aho On the Clses o f Flour & Eggs 56

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Elizabeth Renfro The Plaza in San Martin 57 Robert Cooperman Telling Life from A rt 58 Eavesdropping 60 Suzanne Paola The Way Down 61 Debra Hines Courtesy 62 Marilyn Folkestad Between Hoodoo & Silver Falls 63 James Doyle Salome 64 Deborah Burnham Calling Them Back 65 Karen Kelley In the Garden 66 Forrest Gander Realm of the Hungry Ghosts 68 Nancy Schoenberger Girl on a White Porch 69 Flambeaux 70 Interview Nancy Schoenberger Living like the Grasshopper 73 with an introduction by Bronwyn G. Pughe Fiction Corinne Demas Bliss Among the Lettuce 83 Anthony Bukoski Nights in Varmland 93 Fred Haefele Ray Holly 102 Reviews Pamela Gschuk on Jack Heflin 113 Bronwyn G. Pughe on Patricia Goedicke 114 Joseph Martin on Quinton Duval 115 Neile Graham on Jorie Graham 116 Art Fox Joy McGrew Black Box: Clay Sculpture 8 Karen Rasco Collage 20 Collage 21 Page Allen White Shell 72 Page Allen Time Frame, no. 3 82 Fox Joy McGrew Clay Sculpture 112