KUDZU CONTENTS Editor’s Note............................................................ M.P. Jones …....…...................4 Contents....................................................................................................................3 What They Say....................................................... Joe Mills ..................................5 She Grows Poems ….......................6 Everglades Baptism................................................ Karla Linn Merrifield .............7 Imagine That.......................................................... Patty Somlo ............................8 Larache and Lexis.................................................. Salma Ruth Bratt ...................12 First Impressions …................13 Gathering Myself.................................................... Mark Jackley...........................14 Hippobear: a dream poem...................................... Jonathan Highfield ...............15 Pueraria Lobata......................................................Aaron Poller..............................16 At the Speed of a Reborn Man................................ Sue Blaustein .........................17 When .........................19 To Cassandra............................................................ R.W. Haynes .........................21 East of El Paso .........................22 The Wilderness......................…................................ Peter Branson .......................23 New Trees.................................................................. Seth Trent ............................24 The Champion Maple of Wells Avenue.................... Andy Myers .........................25 January Crocuses...................................................... Chris Jackson ......................27 Circle Around the Moon............................................ W.C. Bamberger .................28 Three Notes on Biosphere 2 .................34 Face of the Hills......................................................... Rob K. Baum .......................41 Symbology................................................................. Simon Jackson ....................42 Uncanny Plant Growth............................................ Jamie King ...........................43 Gyges......................................................................... André Babyn ........................48
Biographies................................................................................................................50 Kudzu Staff................................................................................................................52