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^{translated from the Ojibwe by the author}

At the threshold
of melancholy
is a voice barely heard

a light wrapped in fog
and a piece of steel
longing for flint.

Strike it.

Gashkikanokaaning
apii gashkenindaman
agaawaa bapoweyan

waateg gashkaabateg
manidoo-biiwaabik
misawenimaad biiwaanan.

Zisikinebidoon.

Title	Author	Date
Cracked Ice	Julie Sheehan	09/02/2010
Unjust Praise	Ghirmai Yohannes	09/01/2010
I Pack Her Suitcase with Sticks, Light the Tinder, and Shut the Lid	Rob Schlegel	08/31/2010
What the Last Evening Will Be Like	Edward Hirsch	08/29/2010
At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)	John Donne	08/29/2010
Come Slowly—Eden (211)	Emily Dickinson	08/28/2010
From “Renewal”	Chris Abani	08/27/2010
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour	Wallace Stevens	08/26/2010
The Gaffe	C. K. Williams	08/25/2010
View from a Temporary Window	Joanie Mackowski	08/24/2010