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Linda Blaskey
*Questions From the Afterlife
*I'M ADDICTED TO WATER'S
SHUSH,
*For Horses No Longer Ridden
*What Happened
*On Adopting a New Bird Mythology
After My Mastectomies
*Red balloon
*Quantico Calls
*I Left the Hanging Candle Burning
*Grief
*Women Themselves
*The Divide
*Ode to Indica
*Kim0no with Rising Suns and Cranes
*Moose-Wilson Road, Wyoming
*The Poddy Calf
*Having Lost Their Only Child
*When people used to ask me why I
didn't have children,
*AT THE END OF THE WAR
*Kadye Dressed as a Boy in the Dark
*Empathy
*Not of My Time
Pushcart Prize Nominees!
COVER ART
The Flower Sellers is by Mexican artist Alfredo Ramos Martínez (b 1871). It is a tempera and pastel on heavy cardboard, 26X33 inches in size, and was created during his “al fresco” period when he lived in California. He died there in 1946.