CURRENT ISSUE (#50)
Spring/Summer 2012

HAYDEN'S FERRY REVIEW

SPRING 1987 ISSUE 2

S. Denys Pogue
Gewgaw [7]

Michael Hogan
Springtime in the Rockies [15]

Richard Terrill
Variations on Variations on a Summer's Day by Wallace Stevens [16]

Robert Kipness
The Entrance [18]

Pauline Mortensen
Conditions in General [19]

Peggy Shumaker
The Waitress's Kid [27]
The Cousin on Holiday [29]

Edward C. Lynskey
Hopital Albert Schweitzer [30]
The Night Light [31]

Kathleen Atkins
Enisled [32]

Dennis Schmitz
The Text [33]
Frontier [34]

Umberto Saba
Cinders [35]

Rolly Kent
The Bluebird [36]

Allan Peterson
Preparing for Loons [38]

K.B. Hwang
Two Chairs [39]

Benjamin Goluboff
Faculties [40]

Catherine Sasanov
Oppenheimer Leaves his Family for Work Again, Los Alamos, 1945 [54]
Kitty Oppenheimer Defends Her Husband as Not Being a Communist Conspirator, 1954 [55]
Oppenheimer Contracts Throat Cancer, 1967 [56]

Bruce Taylor
After Rumi [57]
At Munsan on the Imjin River I think of the Lower East Bank of the Upper St. Croix [59]

Barry Thomson
Agave Colorata [61]

Thomas M. McNally
Props [62]

Paul Shuttleworth
Duet for Lost Highway: Vengeance, Murder, Cars Burning in Motel Parking Lots, Honky Tonks, and True Love West of the Missouri [69]
And the Dog is Called Lefty [71]

Michael Carrino
Outside the Infirmary Window [72]

Naomi Wallace
Ballad for Gallipoli [73]

Barry Thomson
Agave Parryi [74]

Ron Carlson
The Bermuda Trapezoid [75]

D. Nurkse
Faded Green Card [79]
A Southern Capital [80]
Air Well [81]

Joseph Edward Bolton
The Blue World [82]

Peter Cooley
Van Gogh L'Arlesienne: Madame Ginoux [84]
An Epiphany [85]
To A Willow Waist-High in the Mississippi [86]

Yasu Eguchi
Sound of Autumn [87]

Tom Chiarella
Jelly in the Pawpaw Tree [88]

Gyorgy Raba
The Greeks are Blinding Polyphemus [101]
A Preface to Dying [102]

Walter McDonald
Bait [104]

Jeannine Savard
Tintype with Rosebank [105]

Hilary Heyman
Shadow [107]

Rob Hall
An Interview with T. Coraghessan Boyle [108 ]

Contributor's notes [117]

Hayden's Ferry Review Issue 2 Cover

Issue 2 Staff

Managing Editor
Marcia Hamilton

Fiction Editors
Janice Kelly
Kerrie McCaw

Poetry Editors
John Graves Morris
Paul Morris

Faculty Advisor
Alberto Rios

Student Publications
Bruce Itule
Salima Keegan

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Poetry Selection – D. Nurkse, Air Well

The faces in the lit windows
look so solemn, as if they'd just decided
to marry, or to join the army;
but each night they reappear
like puppets made of articulated flame
and I watch absorbed
trying to read the words trapped
like bees on the verge of their lips,
until my lover comes home from school
and we turn off our light.
We stand for a second naked
watching together as those polished masks
eat and smoke and nod,
then we turn inward, to each other.

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Fiction Selection – Ron Carlson, from The Bermuda Trapezoid

Everybody take a deep breath. That's what my father always said when there was big news, good or bad.

Take a deep breath and see where you are. So do it, because I've got news. I acquired this news first hand and there is not even the tiniest question in my mind as to its validity. One night last week between the hours of 2300 and 2310 my sloop, The Chelsea, went down from under me on solo fifty-five miles due east of Key West. The weather was fair, the seas were calm. Visibility was unlimited.

I went down half a mile beyond the boundary of an area known as the Bermuda Triangle, an area notorious for mysterious ship disappearances. I am an expert sailor, and I have never believed in the Bermuda Triangle. And now, after losing my beautiful sloop, The Chelsea, I still do not believe in it. I was standing on the bow in the starlight when The Chelsea went out from under me like a trap door and I now know that it isn't a triangle at all. It's the Bermuda Trapezoid.