Issue 22 – Excuses

Editors: Jana Harris, Roberta Feins, Linda Malnack

Contents

Jana Harris……………………………………………………..Editors’ Note

Kelly Nelson………………………………………………………Attempted

Elizabeth O’Brien…………When I Get Turned Down for the Job of Poet

Katharyn Machan………………………………………………………..Anon

JoAnna Scandiffio………………………………………………………….Spin

Joan Mazza………………………………………………………..Pet Excuses

Katharyn Machan………………………………………………………Escape

Mercedes Lawry……………………………………………………Some Guy

Kit Kennedy…………………………………………The Dog Ate Our HTML

Joan Mazza……………………………………………..Why I Can’t Be There

Rebecca Jessup………………Your Mother Imagines That You Talk to Her

Kate Hovey…………………………………………Double Talking Pantoum

Lois Marie Harrod………………………Not All Our Excuses Come to Light

Claire Keyes…………………………………………………………….Not Fog

Brett Foster………………………………………………………Chemo Brain

Diane Gage……………………………………………………….SoCal Excuse

Vidya S. Panicker………………………………………….The Rapist Justifies

Adrian S. Potter……………………A Partial Inventory of Personal Excuses

Carla Schwartz ………………………………………………. Black Trumpets

LindaAnn LoSchiavo………………………Introduction – No Escape Clause

Lois Marie Harrod………………………………At the Present Moment Café

Clive Donovan…………………………………………………….Excuse Notes

Sharyl Collin………………………………………….The Reason I Let Him In

Gabriella Brand…………………………………….Back Home: Unemployed

Paul Hostovsky……………………………………………………….Beatitude