IN THIS ISSUE:
Walt Bodine
Debra Di Blasi
Amy Fleury
Joel Goldman
Robert C. Jones
Mahnaz M. Shabbir
"What Cotton Money Can't Buy"
Fowler Jones III
Page 7
"Scavenger Hunt"
Joel Goldman
Page 15
"Genesis, Trans-Atlantic Home Exchanges,
and the Truth about Online Love"
Toni Lapp
Page 35
"Bloomsday"
Kathleen Johnson
Page 46
"A bird does not understand
the concept of glass"
Debra Di Blasi
Page 59
"Just Like That"
Tim Todd
Page 64
"Photography Class"
Lucy S. Lauer
Page 72
"Stricken"
Curtis M. Urness, Sr
Page 87
Cutouts at Kemper
Linda Hanley
Page 2
Birds on Wire
Dona Corben
Page 14
Empire Theatre Rebirth
Jeanita G. Ives
Page 43
New York Life Building
Jeanita G. Ives
Page 99
Heaven vs Hell in Vegas
Dominick M. Maino
Page 45
Pretty
Dominick M. Maino
Page 55
Balustrades with Lilies
Jackie Chamberlain
Page 47
Warrior Woman
Lorrie C. Eigles
Page 52
Chilling
Linda Hanley
Page 57
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Leslie Diuguid
Page 58
Liberty
Steve Karol
Page 58
"The John B. Wornall House Museum:
Kansas City's Treasured Heirloom"
Polly W. Swafford
Page 12
"The Blue! O, the Blue!:
A River Retrospective"
Maril Crabtree
Page 18
"No Seat Belts Required"
Anne Hooper
Page 21
"The Whistle Stop Coffee and Merchantile:
The Heart and Soul of Lee's Summit"
Amy Lee Buster
Page 91
"The Cowboys Are Back in Town;
or Confessions of a Suburban Cowboy Poet"
Glen Enloe
Page 24
"Snow on a Saucer"
Mary Jewett
Page 27
"Where There's a Will "
Joann Williams
Page 32
"Remembering Harry: And Then Some"
Walt Bodine
Page 41
"Boardinghouse Revisited"
Joe Schmitz
Page 68
"The Church with a Mezuzah"
Warren Bull
Page 80
"One winter, the painter heard"
Cynthia Pederson
Page 6
"The Editor as Poetry Mechanic"
Mary-Lane Kamberg
Page 11
"Meditations On What Has Been Lost"
Robert C. Jones
Page 22
"Variations On A Theme By Rilke"
Robert C. Jones
Page 23
"On my Street"
Jane Gilbreath
Page 34
"What Happens:
Istanbul, summer 2005"
Alarie Tennille
Page 40
"Open and Closed"
Catherine Moran
Page 44
"The Wall, Emerging"
Elaine K. Lally
Page 56
"Banshee"
Brian Daldorph
Page 67
"Assumptions"
Amy Fleury
Page 70
"Galileo's Finger"
Amy Fleury
Page 71
"Walking to QuikTrip after Dark"
Lindsey Martin-Bowen
Page 86
"Death Dreams"
Maril Crabtree
Page 93
"Rise and Fall"
Kathleen Johnson
Page 98
"Mattie, Conscience of Early Kansas City"
Patricia Clothier
Page 30
"Hale's Firefighters: Star Performers"
Patricia Clothier
Page 82
"A Profile of Chuck Haddix: Kansas City
Jazz Aficionado Extraordinaire"
Tom Gray
Page 49
"WHATZIS? Looking at Contemporary Art"
Priscilla Brown
Page 53
"The Hope of Interfaith Missions"
Mahnaz M. Shabbir
Page 76
"Jim Crist Falls into Spring:
A Gardener's Guide to Fall Gardening"
Patsy Bell Hobson
Page 84
"Brave Women, Heartfelt Verse"
Meredith Hines-Dochterman
Page 94