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Forgiveness

Summer 2004. Vol. 27 No.1

Features interviews with Sarah Klassen, Heather Simeney MacLeod, and Julia Williams. This issue includes poetry by each of the interviewed authors as well as Joanne Arnott, Martha Baillie, Jacqueline Kolosov, Chris Macalino, K.I. Press, and more.

Online content from this issue

  • my voice

    by Heather Simeney MacLeod
    after patsy alford's poem, warning   My voice is the screech, the howl of Lilith as she moves through the...

  • eclipse

    by Sarah Klassen
    Our aunt stands at the curio cabinet, a stone in her chest. Winter casts shadows on the boy caught in...

  • prayer for the widow of a nature lover

    by Sarah Klassen
    Today I prayed for the young woman   whose husband after a difficult illness died.   I didn’t pray for...

  • seasoning 1

    by Chris Macalino
    (.november is waking   in the crisps   of cold weather ,brisk   with its crystal blanket              .the same blanket...

  • saturday mornings

    by Bren Simmers
    She smoothes out the Saturday paper as if pressing a favourite shirt, runs her finger along the ink, then licks...

  • grace

    by Margo Wheaton
    The trees are compliant beneath the sky. They stand in the places assigned to them without protest and grow and...