AQR - Vol. 20, No. 3 & 4, Spring/Summer 2003

About the Cover

Summer rain clouds swirl around Matanuska Peak (6,119 feet) near Palmer, in Alaska’s 300-mile-long Chugach Range, which comprises 70 peaks and several dozen glaciers.

©2003 Benjamin Spatz

Table of Contents

Fiction

Calling Vichet, Sharon May Brown
Help These Days, Linsey Trask
The Girl in the Tree, Dale Gregory Anderson
Observing the Sabbath, Matthew Pitt
Annette Kellermann Is My Hero, Katherine Vaz
An Everyday, Tracy Winn
Civics Lesson, Howard Luxenberg
The People’s Youth, Julianne Ortale
Beggars, Patrick Roscoe
Sweetbreads, Christina Milletti
What You Need to Know, Holly Clark
Less Bulk, More Height, Linda McCullough Moore
Family Meeting, Jeanne M. Leiby
The Jangling Boy, Joseph O’Malley
Amorous Window, Howard Norman
A Bell Is a Cup Until It Is Struck, Amber Dorko Stopper
About the Artist, Becky Hagenston
A Puddle of Sex Books, Ed Allen

Memoir

Naming the Animals, Peter Cooley
Romance, Aurelie Sheehan

Poetry

Mars and Rumors of Mars, Bryan D. Dietrich
What We Choose of Exile, Virgil Suárez
In the Other Tongue, Jacquelyn Pope
Sex with Strangers, Jennifer Keller
Mr. Mann Calls Every Man His Darling, John Mann
Stories Told in Inconstant Light, George Looney
Sunday Night Ravens, Jeanne Emmons
Heads, Susan Eisenberg
Double Exposure, Susan Eisenberg
The Child Astronomer, Sigman Byrd
Alewife, Jesse Lee Kercheval
What Next, Peggy Shumaker
Vincent Van Gogh: Boots With Laces (1886), Joan I. Siegel
Appearances, Jeffery Bahr
Neither Here nor There, Marc Pietrzykowski
In a Wax Village, Marlys West
Packages from Home, Marianne Taylor
The Prophesy of Jonah, Amy Scattergood
Ariadne at the End of the Line, Amy Scattergood
Crows, Moira Linehan
Crows Who Try to Be Cormorants Drown, Lee Ann Roripaugh
The Atrocity of Water, Kirsten Hemmy
Adrift, Barbara DeCesare
Chopin Etude, Claudia M. Reder
Lamar County Training School, 1962, Janice N. Harrington
In the Morning, Janice N. Harrington
Why You Like Him, David Blair
Seers, Frances Ruhlen McConnel
Amerigo Vespucci, 1506, Contemplates Another Sheet of Vellum, Benjamin S. Grossberg
Shooting Script 4, Amy BleserSunset Boulevard in Translation, Lesley Jenike
To a Flicker Nesting in a Telephone Pole, Elise Partridge
Needle and Thread, Anne Pierson Wiese
Goodnight, Texas, Kurt Brown
The Hanged Man, Mike Chasar
Poem for Simone Weil, Jendi Reiter
Anatomy of a Ballet Dancer, a Scoliotic, Kirsten Kaschock
Road Trip, Ioanna Carlsen
Sundowning Exit-Seeker, Donald Platt
White-Throat, Brendan Galvin
A Footnote to Power, Brendan Galvin