Volume 16 (Spring 2005) All files are in Portable Document Format (PDF). View the entire issue. Contributor notes are printed at the ends of the authors' selections in this issue. To view an individual author's selection(s), click the contributor's name: Courtney Johnson  Cover art. John M. Williams  The Year of No Wisteria Tem Montgomery  The Lieutenant: A Faulknerian Tale Lauren Flowers  They Say You'll Forget  Everything  Geometry Lesson  Heading Home  Church Kiss  Missing Buns Charles Rose  Mr. Hardcastle Clive Watkins  A Pretty Position  The Guilty Stones  Manifesto  Ballad of the Outer Life H. L. Hix  The Fury of a Hermetic Language  The Shadow of the Machine Has Drifted Past Christine Casson  Impromptu  Apophatic Jacqueline Kolosov  Swimming off Jericho Beach  Stitches Jenny Factor  She said to me  Letting Go of What's Already Departed Mike Alexander  City Life  Godrium Rhina P. Espaillat  Next-to-Last Song  Peacock Dick Davis  Cythére  Hérédia Loren Graham  Translation  The Transformed John Poch  The Shadow Men  To Glass Robert West  On a Hawkish Head of State Who Says His Favorite Political                    Philosopher Is Jesus  In Memory William Thompson  Mockingbird  To Goose Daniel Tobin  Conchiglie  Marduk Steven P. Schneider  Beachside  Tropicalized Robert B. Shaw  Willows by the River  Memory William Wenthe  Looking for the Marsh Wren  Recording Poems for My Father David Mason  The Language of the Gun