Issue #147

Cover: “Found Dress”
by Wendy Weseen.

Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest Winners

The Six Annual Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest	Heather Pyrcz & Peter Sanger	7
First Prize A Boy Growing Up in London	Ron Stewart	9
Second Prize Nameless Bookish The Poet’s First Physical “The World is a Sea of Tears”	Gillian Savingny	13 14 15 16
Third Prize Earth Tea Vessel Operating Instructions for the Propane Refrigerator Where the Dead Live	Katherine A. Case	17 18 19 20

Sheldon Currie Fiction Contest Winners
“The Loneliness of the Fiction”

The Second Sheldon Currie Fiction Contest The Juror Loneliness of the Fiction Contest Juror	Michael Crummey	23
First Prize Pamplona	Alix Bemrose	25
Second Prize “Singvogel”	Mark Rogers	35
Third Prize What You Need to Make Glass	Margret Bollerup	49

Poetry

Two Poems	Tom Wayman	54
Two Poems	Jack Davis	57
Atonement	Lorna Crozier	61
father’s milk	Cory Lavender	62
Two Poems	Barbara Helfgott Hyett	63
Two Poems	Wayne Curtis	68
Three Poems	Coreen Boucher	70
Bedtime Prayers	Ronnie R. Brown	78
Three Poems	Lee Firestone Dunne	80
Two Poems	Adrienne Gruber	87
Going Is Inevitable But Travelling Is An Act Of Will (For Chris, On Setting Out)	Ken Stange	89
american romance	Tim Prior	98
Two Poems	J.J. Steinfeld	99
Wilson’s Cove	Heather T. Shaw	104
Child and Drum	C. Durning Carroll	106
Two Poems	Chris Pannell	113
Umbilical	David Livingstone Clink	116
Two Poems	David Winwood	119

Reviews

George & Rue by George Elliott Clarke	Robert Edison Sandiford	65
Wide Slumber For Lepidopterists by a. rawlings The World Is a Heartbreaker by Sherwin Tija	Josh Massey	83
Due Preparations for the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital	Melinda Price Wiltshire	101
fractal economies by derek beaulieu	Jesse Ferguson	117

Fiction

At the Time of His Death	Jenny Scott	59
Like So Many Rainbows	Joe Davies	73
After Queen Zenobia’s Telephone	Royston Tester	91
The Floating Wife	Cary Fagan	107

Essay

Back to the Basket of Small Things: Size in the Poems of M. Travis Lane :

Brian Bartlett

121

Cover Art (printed version)

Featured Artist – Wendy Weseen

Cover Photograph: “Found Dress”