Colorado Review Spring 2005

Fiction

Kathleen Lee

A Bad Egg

Seth Biderman

Makarta

Naomi J. Williams

Ferris Wheel

Angie McCullagh

Full Moon

Robin Black

Pine

Poetry

Christopher Arigo

From “Breath Variations”

Dan Beachy-Quick

From “Mulberry”

Ian Bickford

Zombie-ism and the Uncanniness of Matter

Bruce Bond

Afterlife

Allen Braden

Bird City

Carol Ciavonne

Can’t See Past

Maureen Clark

Sunday Song

Sharon Dolin

Flowering Yellow Bush Reticulated Forspent

Jennifer s. Epstein

After Leavitt’s “Aliens”: Nina’s Voice

Melanie Figg

Psalm Somatic 3

Dennis Finnell

Hotel Oceania

The Sound

James Grinwis

Landscape Lento

Brent House

Pastoral

Colette Inez

Private Hours

Lauren Ireland

The Horse of Lust Snorts and Stomps

Lisa Isaacson

Viable Pack (The Collar)

Gillian Jerome

Evacuation Procedures

David Krump

Ophelia Soft

Ben Lerner

From “The Angle of Yaw”

Aaron McCollough

Superliminare

James McCorkle

April, Reading Lu Yu

Stan Mir

Ornithology

Michelle Mitchell-Foust

Imago Mundi

Jenny Mueller

Lyric

Toby Olson

A Cole Porter Medley

Prayer to the Most Powerful Hand

Keith Ratzlaff

Portrait of Her Mother as the 19^thCentury

Amy Schroeder

Via Negativa

Neil Shepard

From Pont de l’Alma, Looking Back at Sacré Coeur

Sandra Simonds

A Poem for David Schubert

Tom Thompson

After Cheese and Coffee

Leather Goods

Scott Topper

Poor

Liz Waldner

Epiphenomenon

G. C. Waldrep

What Is Sforzando

Wang Ping

Edge

Yu Jian

At Midnight in the Far Corner of Yunnan

Harriet Zinnes

Plum Jam

Nonfiction

Floyd Skloot

Numbers

David Harris-Gershon

A Sense of Direction

Book Notes

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

by Nick Flynn

reviewed by Jacqueline Lyons

Local Wonders: Seasons

in the Bohemian Alps

by Ted Kooser

reviewed by Mark Easter

What Animal

by Oni Buchanan

reviewed by Sally Keith

Sad Little Breathing Machine

by Matthea Harvey