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Reginald Blisterkunst, Ph.D.
Among the Remembered Saints: My Life and Subsequent Death
Pluto Wars

Greg Chandler
"Bee's Tree"
"Local Folk"
"Roland's Feast"
"Pond Story "

Doug Childers
"The Baptism"

Gene Cox
The Sunset Lounge

Clarke Crutchfield
"The Break-In"
"The Canceled Party"
"The Imaginary Bullet"

Jason DeBoer
"The Execution of the Sun"

Deanna Francis Mason
"The Daguerreian Marvel"

Dennis Must
"Boys"
"Star-Crossed"

Charlie Onion
"Halloween"
"Love Among the Jellyfish"
Pluto Wars
"Feast of the Manfestation"

Chris Orlet
"Romantic Comedy"

Daniel Rosenblum
"A Full Donkey"

Deanna Frances Mason
"The Daguerreian Marvel"

Andrew L. Wilson
"Fat Cake and Double Talk"

 

The Secular Child
Christopher Voigt

Kneels like none other.

 

His knees sing on the marble

step of flesh, as the subdeacon—

fiddle-backed grandeur

personified—lights another

pious soul in gaudy amber candle

glow.

 

Why can't I sing out to him my presence

here? Why can't he hear me? Why can't

these two actions mate with each other and

create grand animal goodness?

 

The dissemination of

the Word from my lips

and the altered conception

in his pale open ear.

 

Some veiled women who kneel in dark-

ness curse, in orthodox expressions

I haven't begun to understand,

the expulsion.

 

Brown water follows him.

Blood and water and waste

are parted as the space-child

humanized makes his oracular

entrance, and my eyes

are put down,

embedded.

 

Expressionless

 

and without shoes,

I enter a crystal world

 

and a crystal time.

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