Contents

Editorial

Epigraphic poem: A Plague on All Your Houses by Philip Quinlan

Swallows by Leo Yankevich

The Starving Poet Ruminates On Air by Joseph Salemi

Behold the Infant by Fr. Robert J. Pecotte

Per Ardua ad Astra by Geoff Page

Seventeens by Amit Majmudar

Alternating Hymn by Rose Kelleher

The Resistance of Memory by Nigel Holt

And Be Damned by Bill Greenwell

On The Cavalier Poets by Alan Gould

Homage to Descartes by Louis Gallo

Twenty Minute Walk by Angela France

For a Young Friend Who Believes She is Bad by Nausheen Eusuf

Let Me Forget by Stephen Edgar

Star-crossed by Ann Drysdale

He Says Over his Drink by Kevin Cutrer

Someone Else in Hyde Park by Peter Coghill

For Example by C.E. Chaffin

A Valentine by Jared Carter