After Sappho
Christina HutchinsPrehension is how an occasion in its
immediacy of being
absorbs another occasion which has passed.
—Alfred North Whitehead
Sweetest hours of a sweet life
quite literally we became one another
not the old couple finishing each other’s sentence
but beginning here adrape
prehending in such proximity!
My skin the immediate past of your skin
there are so many places I can never go: your
pain dreams or from them into your days
Incalculable the loss the one poem ever
requiring the past be passed
How long ago did this heat I field
depart your animal furnace?
Issue 10
Figurative vs. Literal
Fall 2009
Nonfiction
This Is a Woman
Gretchen Clark
Excerpt from Crocodile: Memoirs
From a Mexican Drug-Running Port
David Vann
Poetry
Five Scenes from Six and Renaldo
Linda Phillimore
After Sappho
Christina Hutchins
Remainders
Christina Hutchins
The Music Inside
Christina Hutchins
The Ear as Rifle
Tania Van Winkle
Arriving in New York for My Grandfather’s Funeral
Alison Doernberg
Honeysuckle
Alison Doernberg
The Crossing
Caroline Knapp
Notes on Summer
Michael Gross
Notes on Continuation
Michael Gross
Fiction
Spanking Without a Cause
Kevin Killian
Dust
Patty Somlo
You Are Here
Elizabeth Rosner
Brother and Sister
Grace Andreacchi
The Ugly Duckling
Charles Haddox
Art