wicked alice| winter 2009


Insomnia
Poppies
I grew up listening to "He hit me (and it felt like a kiss)"
   
Brittany Ober


Amaryllis, Out of Season
Mr. Lear
My Brother in the VFW
Boots
Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings

Elizabeth Barbato



Birthday Eight
Prayer for a Plastic Surgeon
Alice on MAO Inhibitors

Lisa Markowitz


Days of Snoods & Bamboo Curtains
Above the Law

I invented the Paleolithic circumstances beneath this
Hot shallows the color infirmary walls

Karyna McGlynn


Poem for Miss Meade
And Even Smaller Nails

Rachel McKibbens


The Echo Game
The Short Hairs
Girls in hurricane season
Kate Schapiro


Ape Girl (for Jessica Lang)
David-Matthew Barnes
  


Small Sparrow, Deep Grass
Kat Lillian Steiger


The Heliotrope
Kristy Lueshen


Saved
The Miracles
Kim Gek Lin Short


Morning
The Boy at the Co-Op Explains Raw Honey
Nibbled One Side of the Mushroom to Grow Taller, the Other to Shrink Back Down Again
Heather Lynne Mercer


Hill of Beans
Amy Nawrocki


Canonical Ingredient of Beauty Numinous
Nicole Zdeb


excerpts from The White Poems
Rebecca Knotts


Winter Solstic
Packing Lunch
Everything Conditional
Exactly
Evolution
Caryn Lazzuri


Besides, My Avatar Loves Me
K. Alma Peterson


The Carpenter Seals
Nicolette Bethel


How to Make A Mask
Many times she almost said, I know you're not a child but
Call In
How do you know what you’ll be tested on?
Heather Salus


Body Chronicle
Amanda Yskamp



The Rule of Three
Nissa Lee


What Writing Is
What Writing Is, Also
that You May Better Understand
Equinox
Blue Mountain

Sarah Gardner


Rip's Drive-In
The Man with a Hook
Walking Through the Orchard of Forgetfulness
This, in our world three

Jilly Dybka


The Ethics of Language
Purity Ball
The Love Hotel Letters
Duende
Mechanics of a Handyman's Daughter

Kara Dorris


Insomnia
Chella Courington


for Nabokov
The Station
Paedokeelia
Human
Constellations
Geneviève Grady


To A Barn Owl
Brooklyn Copeland


Call the thing til it returns unbothered
Shelly Taylor


Introduction
weaning
departure
eight exercises on a spoon

Trisia Eddy


Capricorn Adjacent Cancer: Opposition
Sequential
Nina's Studio
I tried to look up in the dictionary...
".I have suffered the illusion...
Ava C. Cipri


Chrysalis
Rose Maria Woodson


light & dawn
everywhere a surface
for rent
Elizabeth Hall


Silkworm Mother
Raechel Lee


Bee Keeping
Molly Sutton Kiefer