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COLUMBIA PO E T RY REVIEW Spring 2006 COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO Columbia Poetry Review is published in the spring of each year by the English Department of Columbia College Chicago, 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60605. SUBMISSIONS Our reading period extends from August 1 to November 30. Please send up to 5 pages of poetry during our reading period to the above address. We do not accept e-mail submissions. We respond by mid-March. Any submissions without a SASE will not be returned. PURCHASE INFORMATION Single copies are available for $8.00, and for $11.00 outside the U.S. Please send personal checks or money orders made out to Columbia Poetry Review to the above address. WEBSITE INFORMATION To see a catalog of back issues (with sample works) visit Columbia Poetry Review’s website at http://www.colum.edu/undergraduate/english/poetry/ pub/cpr/. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Special thanks to Kenneth Daley, Chair of the English Department; Dr. Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Steven Kapelke, Provost; and Dr. Warrick Carter, President of Columbia College. Thanks also to Brendan Riley for website design and support, to Jane DeGrado-Conforti for her assistance, and to Sean Flynn and John Steven Cummins for their editorial contribution. Tess Gallagher’s poems are from her forthcoming volume Dear Ghosts, to be published by Graywolf Press in May 2006. Cover art: Shadow Traces: Ushabti. Barbara Kasten, 2004. Photograph. Graciously provided by the artist. Design by Columbia College Chicago Creative & Printing Services. ISSN: 1930-4900 Copyright © 2006 by Columbia College Chicago All rights revert to authors upon publication. Printed in the U.S.A. EDITORS Christopher Ankney Ryan Collins Cora Jacobs Jacob Saenz ASSISTANT EDITORS Nolan Chessman Jennifer Watman EDITORIAL BOARD Hanna Andrews Chet Gresham Amanda M. Johnson Becca Klaver Daren Thurman READERS Margaret Brady Erik Gandara Daniela Olszewska Julie Rouse Katherine Rugg PRODUCTION STAFF Carol Eding Monica Gerstemeier Marquita Harris B.J. Soloy FACULTY ADVISOR David Trinidad CONTENTS ED ROBERSON Face ............................................................................................. 1 To see the earth before the end of the world ................................ 2 Ode ............................................................................................. 3 JOSHUA HARMON Landscape .................................................................................... 6 ANIS SHIVANI Gentilly Precincts, Feliciana Parish, Circa 2005 ............................. 7 NOLAN CHESSMAN Inherent ....................................................................................... 8 EILEEN MYLES I’m moved ................................................................................... 9 CHRISTOPHER BURAWA The Mind Flows a River that Murders Someone........................ 11 REBECCA WEE At Starved Rock ........................................................................ 12 MARISSA SPALDING Sitting in the belly of a swan ...................................................... 14 CHRIS GREEN New Year Moon Cakes .............................................................. 15 ANGELA MULLENHOUR There Are Far Too Many Spaces (Night Driving)........................ 16 JOAN LARKIN Jew in Paris ................................................................................ 17 Burial ........................................................................................ 18 EVE PACKER ice-share .................................................................................... 19 DAVID TRINIDAD from A Poem Under the Influence .............................................. 20 MARGARET BRADY Letters from Home .................................................................... 26 PETER O’LEARY Who Has Denied to Me the Dolesome Houses? ................................ 27 ELIZABETH TREADWELL Looking for a fairy-tale castle? There are bargains to be had, ...... 29 LOUISE THOMAS Untitled ..................................................................................... 30 ERICA FIEDLER from Will live as if ....................................................................... 31 Fond .......................................................................................... 32 SHANE MCCRAE Divorce Song ............................................................................. 33 JOHN FRANKLIN fashionist chant .......................................................................... 34 JASON BREDLE The Idiot’s Guide to Faking Your Own Death and Moving to Mexico ..................................................................... 36 IAN HARRIS Last of the Last ........................................................................... 39 CORA JACOBS Falling into a Dream after Reliving an Earlier Disagreement....... 40 SCOTT HIGHTOWER Gashapon ................................................................................... 41 NANCE VAN WINCKEL The Room’s French Window Fluttered Open & Closed, ............ 42 DAVID SCHLOSS The Dakota ............................................................................... 43 Appetite ..................................................................................... 45 BRANDI HOMAN Red Dress Cento #1 .................................................................. 46 JENNIFER WATMAN [time in the veins of someone who turns eggs for a living] ......... 47 PATTY SEYBURN Spanish for Dream ..................................................................... 52 TIMOTHY LIU An Assignation ........................................................................... 53 Who Puts Us Out To Pasture ..................................................... 54 MEDBH MCGUCKIAN Birds, Women and Writing ......................................................... 55 MICHAEL SCOTT SUMRAK Winter of ................................................................................... 57 SETH ABRAMSON Say the Boy ................................................................................ 58 LEWIS COLON Residual Valentine ...................................................................... 59 KRISTY BOWEN letter to my art deco lover .......................................................... 60 TESS GALLAGHER I Asked That a Prayer ................................................................. 61 Eternal ....................................................................................... 62 Eating With One Chopstick ....................................................... 64 MARLON UNAS ESGUERRA Yellow Tag Sale .......................................................................... 65 BRENDA COULTAS The Tear in the Fabric between Time and Space ......................... 66 DANIEL SUAREZ A Memory Forgotten Remembered .......................................... 67 TOM O’CONNOR Desolate Magic .......................................................................... 69 JOHN STEVEN CUMMINS from Hive Mind .......................................................................... 70 AMANDA M. JOHNSON On Remarks On Colour ............................................................... 71 AMANDA AUCHTER Dead Letter Recovery ................................................................ 72 TERRY LUCAS wind .......................................................................................... 73 KIMIKO HAHN His Showres Soote ........................................................................ 74 Reversal ..................................................................................... 75 BAHIYYIH DAVIS Cooking in Tiers ........................................................................ 76 BETH ROBERTS The Clean Math ........................................................................ 78 SHANLEY Erin KANE Skin ........................................................................................... 79 CLAY MATTHEWS Late Eighties Elegy..................................................................... 80 MARGUERITE L. HARROLD Close to Her .............................................................................. 81 JOE LEDOUX Black ......................................................................................... 82 ERIN M. BERTRAM Poem [Apostasy V2.0 or Requiem On A Series Of Postcards] ..... 83 WOODY LOVERUDE Rifles, Kubrick, and Finally a Love Poem ................................... 87 LINDSAY BELL Defense...................................................................................... 89 ANGELA MARSHALL Transcription ............................................................................. 90 MEGAN HARLAN Slower ......................................................................................