Issue 8.1 Poetry Christmas Story by Bobby C. Rogers Cain Departs for Nod by Randel McCraw Helms A Personal Lexicon by Sem Megson The Bridge by Pete Mackey Photo of My Mother at Sixteen Taken for The Providence Journal by Meghann Plunkett Overland Express Arriving at Helena, Mont. by Michael Mingo Sonnet with Zinc and Rhododendrons by Robert Thomas No Longer the Only One of Its Kind by Angie Macri The Pecos (at Holy Ghost Creek) by John Poch Strays by Jeremy Griffin Fiction Receptions With the Poet by Diana Altman Non Fiction Artwork Song by Helen Durant