CIRQUE
A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim Vol. 3 No. 2
Summer Solstice 2012
Contents
Non-Fiction
Erica Watson Wendy Uzzell Stefon Mears Richard Mack Monica Devine Janet Buttenwieser Gretchen Brinck
Poetry
Alexandra Appel Michael Aspros Christianne Balk John Barton Maureen Donatelli Melina Draper Susi Gregg Fowler Alisa Gordaneer Ela Harrison Gordon Shane Harms Jacqueline Haskins Hannah Hudson Max Hjortsberg Susheila Khera J.I. Kleinberg Sandra Kleven Emily Kurn Simon Langham Charles Leggett Dan MacIsaac David McElroy
End Words Waiting for Me to Follow Engineering Coincidence Searching for Thoreau (Misdemeanor Beachcombing) Water Mask Ke Garne The Fox Boy
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#59 from The Anchorage City Poems, July 2011 Back Country Tea Like Water Mist The Seven Deadly Sins Window Tongue to Tongue Like an Amaryllis Solstice: Summer Solstice: Winter Equinox: Spring Equinox: Fall A Book’s Two Halves Songs South of the Border Iron John Unemployed Wind Bones “If you are squeamish, don’t prod the beach rubble” Birds Evidently Are You Safe? Bones For Richard Who Knows Everything The Places You Drove Me August and Beyond All-Ages Latin Music at the Famous Spiegeltent Spirit Bear In Your Child Soldier Dream Take an Orange in Case You Get Lost Videographer
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