Chariton Review Vol. 40

Contents

Short Fiction

Brad Collins • I Found Your Body

Sarah Heying • Logic and the Long Gone

Jacob Mendelsohn • In Old New York

Tony Motzenbacker • Drought

Vincent Wagner • Art as a Boy’s Name

Essays

W. Royce Adams • Too Late, Naytan

J. A. Bernstein • Desert Castles

Poetry

David Axelrod • The Melancholy of Resistance
• A Plea To Strangers
• Dedication

Walter Bargen • The So-Called Good Life
• Exile
• Post Post

Michael Cole • The Mental Universe

Milton Erlich • The Brilliant Function of Love

Andra Emilia Fenton • Amo Todo
• Water

Liz Glodek • Survival
• River
• Offer It Up for the Poor Souls in Purgatory

Jonathan Greenhause • Instead of sheets, Timothy awakes
• Rinse Cycle
• The Limits of Self-Torture

Tom Hansen • Early One Morning
• Jack and Jill
• Children of Water

Edward Harkness• Pine Siskin

John Harn • Read This Poem
• Blackberry Preambles

Victoria Kelly • When the Jets Came Home

Gerry LaFemina • After Labor Day
• Thief
• Captialism
• Event Horizon
• Greenwich Village

Stephen Meisel • Here’s to My Asking

Beth Ann Mock • Falling Down Waltz
• Daddy Eats First

Clifton T. Perkins • Hospital Center
• The Moon Stops Working

Athar C. Pavis • No Matter What They Meant

George Perreault • Preacher Roberts: Remembrance

Daye Phillippo • Independence
• Election Year
• Ordinary Ghazal

Brooke Sahni • An Attempt at Solace
• Dream-Tending

Nathaneal Tagg • Nepalese Poet of Subway

Rachel A. Wise • Yesterday’s People
• From the Highwall
• On Mountain Festivals; or, Dulcimers and Biscuits
• Bar Display
• Beneath the Hackberry

John Zedolik • Hard Word

About the Contributors

End Table

Works Sighted

Book Review