Rain Shadow Review IX (2019)
Contents
Introduction – Gillian Haines 1
A Tribute
- Paul David Ashley
- Prison 6
- All We Wanted 7
- Ending an Affair 8
- Sounds 10
- John T. Zaremba
- Negotiations 12
- The Profligate 13
- Cash Terrell
- The Convict’s Diary May 21st 14
- The Convict’s Diary May 26th 15
- J. Charles Green
- Parole Denial 16
- Freedom 16
- Isolation Cell Poem 17
- Michael Small
- Charlie 12 18
- At Night 19
- I Can Forget 19
- The Bed 20
Poetry
- Gretchen Hill
- in the grocery store express lane 22
- rip van winkle 23
- to my friend in the last days of my marriage 24
- be 26
- Paul Larson
- Instead 28
- Jesse Gonzales
- Refraction 29
- My Tattoo 30
- Jose Luis Marquez
- Linear Perspectives 31
- J. Link Freedom
- Thoughts 32
- K.D. Lovett
- Under the Midnight Pearl 33
- James Rogers
- Doubt 34
- Respect 35
- Sean King
- This 36
- Ralph Hager
- Baggage 37
- Sunday Morning 38
- Trent Xavier
- Dark as the Night in the Dimmest City 39
- Garen Zakarian
- Untitled 40
Prose
- Steven P. Arthur
- Justifiable Prevarication 42
- Separation Anxieties 45
- William Cannon
- A Saudi Car Bomb 47
- Spidey Zack 51
- Strawberry Popsicle Suicide 57
- Jake Wideman
- Chance 59
- Jesse Gonzales
- Counting Bricks 63
- White Shadow 65
- Jasper Jones
- To Love Thy Brother 71
- Garen Zakarian
- Three Musketeers 73
- J. Link
- Toolbox 75
- Terrance Robinson
- The Matter with Gregory 77
- William B. Sedlmayr
- I want to tell you a story 87
Cover Art by Garen Zakarian
Interior Art by John T. Zaremba, J. Link, and William Cannon