The Meadow Literary and Art Journal 2013

Table of Contents Mark Maynard Fiction Shelby Cook Charles Rafferty Lauren Eyler Justin Crawford Non-Fiction Gerry LaFemina Debra Fox Melissa Laws Robert Lively Poetry Joseph Fasano Simon Perchik Simon Perchik Steve Shilling J. Patrick Lewis Mitch Grabois Daniel Aristi An Interview with Christopher Coake 68 Falling Slowly 57 Modest Blouses and Flowing Skirts 85 A Visitation 97 Death & Progeny 122 Keep Your Stories to Yourself: The Failure of the Anecdote as Poem 10 Paper Fragments 23 Seedlings 39 Nonfiction, Apotropaics, and the Remembrances of Ourselves 54 Moon in the Dark Pines 7 * 8 * 9 It’s OK To Admit It 17 Thirteen Ways of Squinting at a Poet 18 Fortune 20 las manos (the hands) 21 Stephen Christopher Schlatter Ghazal Abandoned 38 Diane Hinkley Brandon PeQueen Logan Seidl Emily Jewel Andrea Buchanan Andrea Buchanan Emily Jewel Adam Tavel Alyse K. Bensel Evan Adkins Colin Dodds Anthony Frame Jane Rosenberg LaForge Jane Rosenberg LaForge Tim Applegate Joe Benevento Angelo Perez The Problem With Our Table 43 The Signal at the Intersection of 44 Cypress and Star How was Work Today 45 A Cup of Vanilla Ice Cream with Two Spoons 46 Down and Dirty Guide to Surviving 47 a Holiday with My Family Something like a Mom 48 Wild Flower 49 AD 50 The Other Kids at Recess 51 A Walk In The Park 52 (Spill-O’s Plan for America) 53 Everything I Know I Learned from Chaz Bono 62 Mickey Rooney Lives Within Us 64 The Last Days of Louis Armstrong 65 John Cassavetes 66 What Cannot Be Feigned 67 Bear 78