Beyond the Lines : Writing What You Couldn't Say

by Lagrattuta, Margo; Zeitman, R. Suzanne; Graham, Tamara; Holdreith, Ann; Morris, John; Harlikowicz, Joyce; Washburn, Patricia; Prentiss, Dale; Hacker, Rhonda; Dominik, Linda; Dunphy, Maureen; Perkinson, Jim

• ISBN13: 9781891386145
• ISBN10: 189138614X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Plain View Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(11)
Margo LaGattuta
Rising to Adjust	11	(20)
R. Suzanne Zeitman
Bareback Riding	12	(1)
Puppet Show	13	(1)
Absolute Proof	14	(2)
To the Angels of the Supermarket	16	(1)
Random Thoughts	17	(1)
Rising to Adjust	18	(2)
Advice in Plain English	20	(3)
Temporary Tales	23	(1)
Hymn to Hysteria	24	(1)
The Ugly Sister	25	(1)
Moment	26	(1)
Early Tragedy	27	(3)
To Live For	30	(1)
Burying the Dogwood	31	(22)
Tamara Graham
Grandmama	33	(2)
Bacon as Love	35	(2)
Mama Said	37	(1)
Effie Lee	38	(4)
Preserved	42	(1)
Under Pressure	43	(1)
I. Packing for Vancouver	44	(1)
II. Tripping	45	(2)
Backstroke in Campbell's Soup	47	(1)
Crossings	48	(2)
Dogwoods	50	(3)
Weightless Birds and Holy Diamonds	53	(20)
Ann Holdreith
Shining	53	(1)
Points of Light	54	(1)
The New Game	55	(3)
Congalese	58	(2)
Saints of Another Time	60	(1)
Wild Perfume	61	(1)
Mrs. Bigell's Garden	62	(1)
The Next Trapeze	63	(1)
A Rope of Purple Light	64	(1)
Rice Paper Blinds	65	(1)
Washed Glass	66	(1)
My Heart Returns to Paris	67	(1)
Garden Song	68	(1)
Prism	69	(1)
Lullaby	70	(2)
Blackbird and White China	72	(1)
Eclipse of the Sun God	73	(22)
John Morris
The Loon	74	(1)
The Star	75	(1)
Candles	75	(1)
In the Night	76	(1)
Roosevelt School	77	(1)
How to Brush Your Teeth	78	(1)
Blenheim Palace	79	(1)
Black Swans	80	(1)
Lasting Spring	81	(2)
Hugs	83	(1)
Night World	84	(1)
Hawks and Crows	85	(1)
Butterflies	85	(1)
To a Mouse	86	(1)
Artichokes	87	(1)
Abrasives	87	(1)
Compost	87	(1)
Crows	88	(1)
Eclipse of the Sun God	89	(1)
Amulets	90	(1)
Diana	90	(1)
Epiphany	91	(1)
Green Man	91	(1)
The Elements	92	(2)
Late Winter	94	(1)
A Robin Startled from Her Sleep	95	(16)
Joyce Harlukowicz
Sleepless on June 21	97	(1)
Mother and Daughter	98	(1)
Ode to Elijah	99	(1)
A Conversation with Clovis	100	(1)
First Blizzard	101	(1)
Let Morning Come	102	(1)
Four Hours to Kalamazoo	103	(1)
Uncle's Legacy	104	(2)
At Dawn Three Blackbirds	106	(1)
Giving Away the Farm	107	(1)
Cages	108	(1)
Lies	109	(1)
On the Back Porch in Plastic Chairs	110	(1)
Dancing on the Precipice	111	(22)
Patricia Washburn
His Name Was Jimmy	114	(1)
Goddess of the Vineyard	115	(1)
Sudsing Tom Selleck	116	(1)
Croswind	117	(3)
Thursday's Children	120	(13)
The Open Broken Tapping Parts	133	(22)
Dale Prentiss
From Above	135	(1)
The Courage to Know	136	(1)
A Steady Stillness	137	(1)
Northeast from Oak Ridge	138	(1)
Postcard from Heaven	139	(1)
At Least a Little Lost	140	(1)
Midsummer Eve	141	(2)
The Mermaid Reason	143	(1)
Life at the Speed of Poetry	144	(1)
Truce	145	(1)
Trip to San Francisco	146	(1)
One Week Only	147	(1)
Good Consumers	148	(1)
Recent Now: Alone among Each Other	149	(1)
This Place Must Be Home	150	(1)
A Kid in a K-Mart Store	151	(4)
Earthquakes and Aftershocks	155	(26)
Rhonda Hacker
Traces of Dad	156	(2)
Detente	158	(1)
Travels with Mom	159	(1)
Juno	160	(2)
Earthquakes and After-shocks	162	(2)
Homage to the Journeymen	164	(2)
Table Saw	166	(1)
Grandpa's Hands	167	(1)
Tiny Tears	168	(2)
Sharon	170	(2)
Drink Your Milk	172	(1)
Erma	173	(1)
Special Delivery	174	(2)
Food for Thought	176	(2)
Thirteen Ways to Look at a Handkerchief	178	(3)
Unshuttered Windows	181	(18)
Linda L. Dominik
Maytag Moments	182	(2)
Lines on Lines	184	(1)
Ghost Mother	185	(1)
Children's Hospital, Palestine 1914	186	(1)
The Bishop's Visit	187	(2)
Therapy Session	189	(1)
Sabotage	190	(1)
Cemetery Journey	191	(1)
Casting Call	192	(1)
The Bond	193	(1)
Never Too Late	194	(2)
Ankle	196	(2)
Summer Piece	198	(1)
Stardust from the Barn	199	(22)
Maureen Dunphy
Bad-Hat Brew	202	(1)
``Frost Heave Ahead''	203	(3)
Spousal Surgery	206	(1)
What Is Still Needed	207	(1)
In Our Prayers	208	(2)
Onion Shortcake	210	(3)
Earth	213	(1)
Particles of Shimmer, Wave of Spokes	214	(1)
Birdseed Offerings	215	(1)
Ode to Hestia	216	(1)
Knowing	217	(1)
Brushpile in a Clearing	218	(3)
Insoluble Gravity	221	(24)
Jim Perkinson
on trying to heal loss with language	225	(1)
green	226	(1)
life in flamenco green	227	(1)
hope	228	(1)
hearing	229	(1)
east wall	230	(1)
black and white and spain and tibet	231	(2)
dreaming in cracks	233	(1)
history in your eye	234	(1)
when there is nothing to say	235	(1)
god	236	(1)
for the birth of sun	237	(1)
falling	238	(1)
and you were just asking...	239	(1)
toeing the line	240	(1)
amulet hung	241	(1)
iridescence	242	(3)
About the Writers	245