Umbrella Contents

Issue 4, Summer 2008

Bumbershoot is Back: Editor’s Preface

Orsorum Light

Shopping Online  by Thomas Rodes

Love in the Time of Viagra  by Rick Mulliin

The Lyric “I”  by Clay Stockton

Artistic Licenses  by Sally Cook

Fart of Larkness  by Norman Ball

Greek, to Me  by Noam D. Plum

Questions for the Day  by James Gonda

My Denture  by Thomas Rodes

A Canticle for the Freckled  by Marianne Zarzana

Cable News Crawls on the Seven Deadlies  by Carolyn Moore

Net Poets  by C. E. Chaffin

Fractured Verse

Fractured Arnold

Fractured Auden

Fractured Blake

Fractured Bishop

Fractured Brownings

Fractured Dickinson

Fractured Donne

Fractured Eliot

Fractured Frost

Fractured Homer

Fractuerd Hopkins

Fractured Keats

Fractured Kipling

Fractured Marvell

Fractured Millay

Fractured Plath

Fractured Shakespeare

Fractured Stevens

Fractured Tennyson

Fractured Whitman

Fractured Williams

Fractured Wordsworth

Fractured Yeats

Contributors

Seriously Funny

The Sugar Man  by Michael Cantor

On the Death by Drowning . . .  by Gail White

Nebraska Morning  by Rick Marlatt

Another Round with Loneliness  by Sarah Elizabeth Colona

Happy Alcoholic  by C. E. Chaffin

Another Woman’s Garden  by Enriqueta Carrington

Role Reversal  by Ellaraine Lockie

What’s the Weirdest Place You Ever Did It?  by Chris O’Carroll

What do you have to show for yourself?  by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo

Environmental Progress  by LaDonna English

Private Box  by Chris Bullard

Puer Aeternus  by John Milbury-Steen

Proposal for Optimal Reconfiguration  by Thomas Rodes

On opening a door while it snows like a motherfucker  by Julie Carter

Once the work is done  by Emrys Westacott

The Sentient Creature Feature

Mollycat’s Nocturne  by Mollycat Jones

Memo F11  by Kenny Bien

Advice Feline-ious  by Juleigh Howard-Hobson

It’s a Moo Point  by Antonia Clark

The Chickenrun  by T. S. Pullet and Paul Stevens

The Spa Raccoon  by Barbara Lydecker Crane

The Body of a Dead Spider  by Laura McCullough

Scala Naturæ  by Greg Scott Brown

I Know He’ll Be Back, But . . .  by Martin Elster

As I Listen to the Rain  by Martin Elster

Briefly at Midnight  by David Graham