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The Prose Poem: An International Journal Web Issue V Introduction to this issue: In editing The Best of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, I feel humble and defensive at the same time. First, I am humbled by my inability to articulate anything close to absolute criteria for my "best of" selections. I have read so many prose poems over the past eight years that I feel as if a large gray eraser is squatting in the hollow of my head. I am not even sure what my criteria are, anymore . . . Read more of Peter Johnson's Introduction For more prose and poems visit our sponsoring siteWebdelSol.Com. Warning to the Reader Robert Bly The Sound Maxine Chernoff The Bait Jon Davis Sleep Russell Edson Bread Russell Edson Chickenhead Richard Garcia Homicidal Domicile II: Night of the No-Par Bill Knott A Poem For Ahab P. H. Liotta Hammer and Nail Naomi Shihab Nye Ahead and Behind Francis Picabia Euphemia Gray's Pubis Charles Simic Heroic Moment Charles Simic All Over the Lot James Tate "I discovered a journal . . ." Gary Young "My son is learning. . ." Gary Young Editorial Board Editor: Peter Johnson Assistant Editors: Brian Johnson and Karen Klingon Contributing Editors: Robert Bly, Russell Edson, David Ignatow, Sibyl James, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Charles Simic Web Fellow: Mike Neff SUBMISSIONS Manuscripts are not being considered at this time, either electronically or otherwise. Thank you. Subscription Information The Prose Poem: An International Journal is published annually. Subscriptions are: $12 for two years; $8 for one year. Please make checks payable to Providence College. Send check to The Prose Poem: An International Journal, english department, Providence College, Providence, RI 02918.	"Which one of us, in his moments of ambition, has not dreamed of a miracle of poetic prose, musical without rhythm and without rhyme, supple enough and rugged enough to adapt itself to the lyrical impulses of the soul, the undulations of reverie, the jibes of conscience?" --Charles Baudelaire "How fortunate is the world that it does not depend on my will. How fortunate am I that you keep watering the stem of our love, even when it withers, even when it has nothing to give." -- Ruth Behar "The winter her body no longer fit, walking felt like swimming in blue jeans and a flannel shirt. Everything stuck to her skin: gum wrappers, Band-Aids, leaves. How she envied the other girls, especially the kind who turned into birds. They were the ones boys hand-tamed, training them to eat crumbs from their palms or sing on cue." -- Nin Andrews Past Issues of The Prose Poem Web Issue IV * * * From the Archives of The Prose Poem from Noir Fred Muratori My Blue Heaven Max Winter Chicago Toni Olofsson A Piece of Black Coal Found Under a Tree Robert Bly Forces Jay Meek Mary Koncel Psalm Thursday Afternoon: Life is Sweet Holly Iglesias Night Fishing Nin Andrews Pslam for Fay Philip Dacey Black Box David Lazar Tohu Paol Keineg Adolescence Nin Andrews The Prodigal Son: Amnesty Dionisio D. Martinez Narcissus Robert Clinton The Goldilocks Compulsion Russell Edson A Village Michael Martone The Body Gabriela Mistral Trivial Pursuit Charles H. Webb Bachelorhood Robert Perchan Against the Evidence A Book Review Dear Shahid, Agha Shahid Ali The Obsession Nin Andrews Warning to the Reader Robert Bly The Accident John Bradley In this moment ... Ales Debeljak Alphabet Soup Stuart Dybek Sleep Russell Edson The Way We Live Elke Erb The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder Lawrence Fixel Forever David Ignatow October Lambs Sybil James September Louis Jenkins Self-Portrait (Kneeling) Brian Johnson After the Weather Mary A. Koncel Light Singing Before the Earth Gian Lombardo Doing Hatha Yoga Robert Hill Long The Mussorgsky Question Morton Marcus Leaving the Roadside Motel Jay Meek La Feria Naomi Shihab Nye Time Robert Perchan Theseus and Ariadne Charles Simic War Mice Goran Simic Letter From the Cabin Mark Vinz This Rosmarie Waldrop The Riddle of the Sphinx Peter Wortsman Book Review of Russell Edson's The Tunnel: Selected Poems Morton Marcus * * * Copyright 2000, The Prose Poem