The Cloud Bird -- David Kobrin -- Oh yes, I saw the cloud bird Heading north, northwest it was Against the current Of the clouds. It’s head and beak a shrouded gray through the background of billowing white. Sometimes the unexpected — the dinosaurs’ return, rage of ocean wave the

In a Room Full of Diamonds an Oyster Stands Out ( for Tish ) -- Bruce Adkins -- She said When you are with gorgeous women you know where the focus will be but he ignored the other two His eyes were fixed on you He understood It is the

Apotheosis of the Dive Coast -- Jim McKeon -- A few miles south along that coast, the ruins of an old Arab settlement seem strange, alternating calm and submerged disquiet. Bright late afternoon light outline the smooth trunks and buttress roots of huge Mugandi trees, many six feet or more

Second Passage from a Work in Process (to be called The Dive Coast) -- Jim McKeon -- The gauzy veil obscuring what Goethe called the eternal feminine ever so briefly clears… Gillian suddenly moves in her chair lifting one hand to the back of her neck. She raises her glass