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Issue 5, Summer 2009

Bumbershoot 2009: Editor’s Preface

Words Inside of Words by Richard Wilbur

Words Inside of Words (Part the First)  

Words Inside of Words (Part the Second)  

Words Inside of Words (Part the Third)  

About the Author  

Orsorum Light

Truck Nuts  by Chris O’Carroll

Country-Western Triolet  by Ginny Kaczmarek

Naked by Refrigerator Light  by Peter Swanson

Picky Pig  by C.B. Anderson

Will Work for Ants  by Carol Lynn Grellas

Chlorine and the Noble Gases  by John Milbury-Steen

Lab Note  by Mary Cresswell

The Man Who Lost His Screen Name  by Michael Cantor

Forecast  by Esther Greenleaf Mürer

About the Author  by Karen Greenbaum-Maya

Being Left-handed  by Jim Gramann

Heartbreak Haircut  by Ricky Garni

Riddles—Curated by Robert Schechter

Five Riddles  by Catherine Tufariello

Two Riddles from the Exeter Book  by Maryann Corbett

Evidence  by A. E. Stallings

Oh, What a Scrambled Web We Weave!  by Edmund Conti

Seven Riddles  by Rhina P. Espaillat

An Exclamation  by Jan D. Hodge

Four Riddles  by Diana Murray

Brain Teaser  by Antonia Clark

Not a Mop  by Adrian Croft

Dicotyledones Riddle  by Juleigh Howard-Hobson

Four Riddles  by Max Gutmann

Elusive I  by Terese Coe

Six Riddles  by J. Patrick Lewis

Seriously Funny

Fat Sally’s Bottom Line  by Susan McLean

Exit Strategy  by Jennifer Bullis

Book Wars at Canterbury’s Book Shop  by Robin Chapman

Sermon  by John Byrne

He’s Good-Bad, But He’s Not Evil  by David W. Landrum

Déjà Blue  by Melissa Balmain

Placebo Effect  by Jennifer Bullis

A Weighty Problem  by Sherry Chandler

Famulus  by Luisa Villani

Not Venting but Bitching  by Terese Coe

Parodies

When I Weighed Two-and-Twenty  by Peggy Landsman

The Iterative Short Stop  by Lance Levens

Anecdote of a Green Toilet  by Ginny Kaczmarek

The Unborn  by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz

Panto  by Esther Greenleaf Mürer

Children’s Verse

Black Velveteen  by John Whitworth

The Horse Who Said Moo  by Robert Schechter

A Boy’s Dream  by Gilda A. Herrera

I’m Igserious  by Robert Schechter

Bushy Tales  by Paul Stevens

The Sentient Creature Feature

Not Glad You Asked and Hobo’s Reply  by David Berman & Gail White

Three Poems  by Scout (with Naomi Benaron)

Star-Nose  by Antonia Clark

Escape of a Guinea Pig  by Buttercup with Cindy Breedlove

In Heat  by Christina Manweller

On Dogs  by Mollycat Jones

A Poodle Ain’t No Dog  by Jim Gramann

True Colors  by Antonia Clark

Animated Shorts  by Edmund Conti

The Cat that Was Raised by Coons (A True Story)  by Amy Gray Light

Oral History  by Marian Veverka

Ode to a Creature Seemingly Incapable of Good  by Esther Greenleaf Mürer

A Kitten Soft and Gray  by Juleigh Howard-Hobson