CIRQUE

A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim Volume 7 No. 1 Winter Solstice 2015

FICTION Ben DuPree David Fewster Frances Howard-Snyder Ron McFarland Adrienne Ross Scanlan Karen Tschannen Susan Z. Witter

I Found You 0 13 The Poetry Slam 17 Rocket Science 21 The English Professor’s Last Fishing Trip 25 The Waltz 30 Wednesday 35 The only time I ever broke anything 37

POETRY Alexandra Appel erratic, limestone lowlands 40 Sarah Aronson Potlatch 1988 40 For Breakfast 40 Gabrielle Barnett Come and Gone Between Us 41 Tom Begich Road 42 Marilyn Borell Boot Camp 1941 43 The Larder 43 Anne Caston The Cloak of Invisibility 44 What The Daisies Say 44 The Fix 45 David Cheezem This Light 46 Kersten Christianson Aunt 46 Visiting the Cabin of Winter News above the Tanana River 47 Wendy Cohan Lately 47 Jonathan Cooper two hills 48 Michael Daley Among School Children 48 Scott Davidson Recovery 49 Patrick Dixon Best Effort 49 Victoria Doerper The Old Women 50 Leonie Mikele Fogle The Tansu Chest 50 Gene Ervine Alaska Is A Library 51 William Ford On Foreign Ground, 1969 52 Kenny Gerling Merton 52 Jo Going Sunflowers in Italia 53 Sierra Golden Self-Portrait with Goats 53 Jim Hanlen Auditioning King Heads For Alaska Water Color Class 54 Sarah Isto Equinox Below Zero 54 Marion Avrilyn Jones Threshold 55 Mary Kancewick Three Rules 55 Ruth Lera Day 13 56 Eric le Fatte The Waterfall above Hart Lake 56 Steven C. Levi Alzheimer’s August 57 David McElroy Beautiful Dangerous Women 57 Carmen Maldonado Dust 58 Karla Linn Merrifield Viewfinding 58 Nahaan Kivgik 59 Leonard Neufeldt The Return 59