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A A CR • B ORCH• RD R E V I E W Volume 14, Number 1 our Winter/Spring 2009 issue featuring the winners of the COR Annual Literary Prizes (more information on the prizes) (return to Vol. 14, No. 1 web page) Return to the Crab Orchard Review PDF Archive of Past Issues Page Crab Orchard Review is supported, in part, by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. A A CDR • B ORCH • R R E V I E W A Journal of Creative Works Vol. 14 No. 1 “Hidden everywhere, a myriad leather seed-cases lie in wait . .” —“Crab Orchard Sanctuary: Late October” Thomas Kinsella Editor & Poetry Editor Founding Editor Allison Joseph Richard Peterson Prose Editor Managing Editor Carolyn Alessio Jon Tribble Editorial Interns Assistant Editors Azizat Danmole Jenna Bazzell Stephenie DeArcangelis Kerry James Evans Camille Gebur Renee Evans Travis Mossotti Rachel Furey Morgan Siewert Alexander Lumans Jonathan Travelstead Sarah McCartt-Jackson Melissa Scholes Young Hannah New Rachna Sheth Board of Advisors Amie Whittemore Ellen Gilchrist J. Dillon Woods Charles Johnson Rodney Jones Special Projects Assistants Thomas Kinsella Mark Brewin Richard Russo Will Tyler Winter/Spring 2009 The Department of English ISSN 1083-5571 Southern Illinois University Carbondale Address all correspondence to: CRAB OR C HARD REVIEW Department of English Faner Hall 2380 - Mail Code 4503 Southern Illinois University Carbondale 1000 Faner Drive Carbondale, Illinois 62901 Crab Orchard Review (ISSN 1083-5571) is published twice a year by the Department of English, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Subscription rates in the United States for individuals are $20 for one year, $30 for two years, $40 for three years; the foreign rate for individuals is $35 for one year. Subscription rates for institutions are $24 for one year, $48 for two years, and $72 for three years; the foreign rate for institutions is $40 for one year. Single issues are $12 (please include an additional $10 for international orders). 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The publication ofCrab Orchard Review is made possible with support from the Chancellor, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Department of English of Southern Illinois University Carbondale; and through generous private and corporate donations. Lines from Thomas Kinsella’s poem “Crab Orchard Sanctuary: Late October” are reprinted from Thomas Kinsella: Poems 1956-1973 (North Carolina: Wake Forest University Press, 1979) and appear by permission of the author. Crab Orchard Review is indexed in Humanities International Complete. Visit Crab Orchard Review’s website: CrabOrchardReview.siuc.edu. Crab Orchard Review and its staff wish to thank these supporters for their generous contributions, aid, expertise, and encouragement: Arthur M. “Lain” Adkins, Karl Kageff, Barb Martin, Jennifer Fandel, Robert Carroll, Kathy Kageff, Bridget Brown, Mona Ross, and Kyle Lake of Southern Illinois University Press Robin Adams, Jackie McFadden, Patty Norris, and Joyce Schemonia Division of Continuing Education SIU Alumni Association The Graduate School College of Liberal Arts The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost The Southern Illinois Writers Guild Crab Orchard Review is supported, in part, by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Crab Orchard Review wishes to express its special thanks to our generous Charter Members/Benefactors, Patrons, Donors, and Supporting Subscribers listed on the following page whose contributions make the publication of this journal possible. We invite new Benefactors ($300 or more), Patrons ($100), Donors ($70), and Supporting Subscribers ($35) to join us. Supporting Subscribers receive a one-year subscription; Donors receive a two-year subscription; Patrons receive a three-year subscription; and Benefactors receive a lifetime subscription. Address all contributions to Crab Orchard Review, Department of English,Faner Hall 2380 – Mail Code 4503, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1000 Faner Drive, Carbondale, Illinois 62901. CHARTER MEMBERS*/BENEFACTORS Carolyn Alessio & Jeremy Manier John M. Howell* Pinckney & Laura Benedict Richard Jurek Edward Brunner & Jane Cogie* Joseph A. Like Linda L. Casebeer Greg & Peggy Legan* Dwayne Dickerson* Beth L. Mohlenbrock* Jack Dyer* Jane I. Montgomery* Joan Ferrell* Ruth E. Oleson* John Guyon* Peggy Shumaker PATRONS Alejandro Cáceres Anita Peterson Kent Haruf Eugenie & Roger Robinson Chris Kelsey Betty & Ray Tribble Jesse Lee Kercheval David & Laura Tribble Lisa J. McClure Clarisse Zimra DONORS Lorna Blake Elisabeth Luther Tawanna R. Brown Jeremy Manier Charles Fanning Lee Newton Jewell A. Friend Lisa Ortiz John & Nancy Jackson Lucia Perillo Reamy Jansen Angela Rubin Rob & Melissa Jensen Hans H. Rudnick Jon Luther William E. Simeone SUPPORTING SUBSCRIBERS Serge & Joan Alessio Chris Kelsey Erik C. Campbell Lee Lever Joanna Christopher Jessica Maich K.K. Collins Charlotte McLeod Jeremiah K. Durick Peggy & Albert Melone Corrine Frisch Nadia Reimer John & Robin Haller Lee Robinson Zdena Heller Catherine Rudnick Karen Hunsaker Peter Rutkoff A A CDR • B ORCH• R R E V I E W Winter/Spring 2009 Volume 14, Number 1 FICTION Ryan Blacketter Convent Boys 1 Toni Kay Cole Water Mommies 11 Timothy Crandle Bethlehem Steel 35 Michael Nye Projection 43 Michael Schiavone Mountain Top Automotive 77 Mecca Jamilah Sullivan A Strange People 87 NON F ICTION PROSE Francisco Aragón The Nicaraguan Novel 113 J.A. Bernstein The Missing 128 Elizabeth Enslin Ama 160 Matt Ferrence Highways and Fairways 174 G.E. Henderson Falling 203 Derek Mong Exodus 221 POETRY Jeffrey Alfier A Baghdad Sniper Dreams 21 Himself Home Kirsten Andersen Rhode Island 22 Blood 24 Nin Andrews The Other Girl 25 Evan Beaty Night Circuit 26 Traci Brimhall Concerning Cuttlefish and Ugolino 27 Katie Cappello Supper Time 29 A Changing Spell 30 Deborah Casillas Field of the Star 32 Nasturtiums 34 George David Clark Statesboro Nocturne 60 James Crews The Abandoned Church of 62 St. Mary Magdalene David Dominguez Money at the End of the Month 63 After Installing Tile All Day, All Night, 65 and into the Early Morning Robert A. Fink Local Man Hit by Train 67 Eugene Gloria Fourth of July 69 Eamon Grennan Hedgerow after Roadwork 70 Landscape with Sacred Cows 71 Small World, Big 72 Gemma Guillermo Balikbayan 73 Mark Halliday The One about the Zinxal 75 Janice N. Harrington Pinch 98 White Slips 100 Pockets 102 Elizabeth Haukaas Three Odes 103 Dennis Hinrichsen Beckett Howl 106 Cruel All Moons and Bitter the Suns 107 Cynthia Marie Hoffman Burning Paper in Lazarus Cemetery 110 The Heart of Sintra 111 Chloë Honum The Island 112 Richard Jackson Point of View 140 Alana Joblin Earthworms 142 Kirun Kapur Arriving, New Delhi 144 Prologue 145 Karen An-Hwei Lee Prayer for Fire Season 146 Prayer for an Ionic Levitating Car 147 Sweet Heteroglossia 150 Moira Linehan Wild Swans at Winter Pond 151 Derick Mattern Explication de texte de sable 152 The Sandal Maker 155 The Muezzin of Vegetables 156 A. McHugh Long Distance Lullaby 158 Waiting for Reconciliation 159 Tyler Caroline Mills Gesture 183 Ossuary 184 Tinsel Halo 186 Leah Nielsen Power Girl 188 Stretch Armstrong 190 When I Was a Lounge Singer 192 Hannah Faith Notess In the City of Arias 194 Dan O’Brien A Box of Oranges 196 Ricardo Pau-Llosa Three-Quarter Moon over Virginia 197 Key Inlet Pondering the Husserlian Epoché 198 while Flying across the Mona Channel Jennifer Perrine Angel Lust 200 I Kiss Your Deer Head Goodnight 201 Lee Felice Pinkas The Fractal Geometry of Nature 202 Donald Platt Golden Day Lily 225 Kristel Rietesel-Low Love Canal 228 Martha Silano How to Sew 230 John Slater Illuminations 232 Frank X Walker Rotten Fruit 234 Spell to Give the Woman a Head 236 Joanna Lin Want Landscape with Elegy 237 Kitchen Song 238 Meditation on Apples 240 Daniel Westover Out of the Irrigation Pipe 241 Joe Wilkins Rain Ghazal 243 Diana Woodcock In the Company of Alligators 244 Kristin Camitta Zimet Privilege 246 Story 247 Contributors’ Notes 248 A Note on Our Cover The four photographs on the cover are by Scott David Gross, a photographer and filmmaker living in Carbondale, Illinois. Announcements We would like to congratulate one of our recent contributors, Adrian Matejka. Adrian Matejka’s poem “Tyndall Armory,” which appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Volume 13, Number 2 (Summer/Fall 2008), has been awarded a 2009 IAC Literary Award fron the Illinois Arts Council and he received $1000. The 2009 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize, Jack Dyer Fiction Prize, and John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize We are pleased to announce the winners and finalists for the 2009 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize, Jack Dyer Fiction Prize, and John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize. In poetry, the winning entry is three poems—“Tinsel Halo,” “Gesture,” and “Ossuary”—by Tyler Caroline Mills of Silver Spring, Maryland. In fiction, the winning entry is “Bethlehem Steel” by Timothy Crandle of San Francisco, California. In literary nonfiction, the winning entry is “The Missing” by J.A. Bernstein of Los Angeles, California. Finalists in poetry are three poems—“Explication de texte de sable,” “The Sandal Maker,” and “The Muezzin of Vegetables”—by Derick Mattern and three poems—“Power Girl,” “Stretch Armstrong,” and “When I Was a Lounge Singer”—by Leah Nielsen.