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Barnhart, Graham

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Certificates of Training
After misspellings and formatting errors
only half the certificates ended up
on good card stock, scrawled with vineyard
rows of Pashtu: military rank, and names
and fathers’ names.
             But after the ceremony,
photographs, and handshakes and hands
held to the heart, and blessings
they only asked if I would please
make new diplomas in English.
English, they said, is official.
The Pashtu lovely, but no one believes it.


English

Certificates of Training

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Everything in Sunlight I Can’t Stop Seeing
after Bruce Weigl
I fry an egg over easy, and eat it
between two slices of wheat toast.
Through the kitchen window I watch a workman 
prying up the old street.  
 Brittle sparks 
jump from the brick top when he strikes it. 
Or it’s the shovel tip scoured to chrome
bouncing off the clay. 
 I leave my sister’s house, 
and the intersection transformer is still 
humming somehow. I’m used to the electricity 
quieting in the wire when the sun 
scrapes its knee bloody up the porch step.   
I walk beneath the orange 
 fluorescent street lamps
and the white fluorescent street lamps turning
the air around themselves resinous 
with bluing rings like flooded drainage ditch 
ripples around dropped earrings. 
 Tree branches, black 
in the dawn sky, resume their grays and browns 
by lunch, but the black wrought fences continue 
leaning into their rust, rigid and failing.
 —there is no war in this but me.


Everything in Sunlight I Can’t Stop Seeing

Wade, Julie Marie

503A

Kingsley, Benjamí­n Naka-Hasebe

notes grandpa gave the search party upon his rescue

Front Matter, The Iowa Review, 47/2 Fall 2017

Drew, Jennifer Alise

Personal Matters

Wicker, Marcus

Silencer on the Arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. after Sassing an Officer Who Assumed He'd Unlawfully Entered His Own Home

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Certificates of Training

Everything in Sunlight I Can’t Stop Seeing

503A

notes grandpa gave the search party upon his rescue

Front Matter, The Iowa Review, 47/2 Fall 2017

Personal Matters

Silencer on the Arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. after Sassing an Officer Who Assumed He'd Unlawfully Entered His Own Home

After Action Report

A Game on the High Seas

Contributors' Notes and Back Matter, The Iowa Review, 47/1 Spring 2017

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