October 2007

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     Poetry by
           Julian Jason Haladyn
           Guadalupe Garcia McCall
           C.S. Reid
           Rob Taylor
           Paul A. Toth

     Fiction by
           Elena Kaufman
           Christopher Meades

     Artwork by
           Scott Malby
           Steve Bunyard




     Ian Rose, Editor
     Tom Corcoran, Assistant Editor
     Edie Ferlan, Assistant Editor

     Readers:
      Todd Heckler, Melanie Dempsey,
     and Paul Rabinowitz

creation story
By Rob Taylor


she has her narratives, he has his,
and together they move through the world.

their scripts are filled with the same set pieces, same characters,
yet they are positioned differently, recite different lines.

his parties end at 11:00, hers at 2:30.
they attend neighbouring churches, cheer for rival hockey teams.
she waters the lawn on tuesdays, he sleeps in on saturdays.
their cars point in opposite directions each morning.
their children attend different universities.

‘but we’re only having one child, a girl,’
he notes to her, drowsily.

she stares at the ceiling, smiles faintly.
it has taken so little for him to unmoor her.

‘then our child will live on an island between us,’
she confesses, rolling on her side.

‘and us? we will live an ocean apart?’
he curls his arm around her, cocooning her in blankets.

he is long asleep before she can answer him,
but she whispers nonetheless, to the dark, pulsing room,
‘we will beach ourselves upon her shore.’






Rob Taylor lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the co-founder of the poetry magazines High Altitude Poetry and One Ghana, One Voice. His poems have previously appeared in a number of magazines, including Vancouver Review, White Wall Review, and Quills. More of his poems can be read on his blog, spread it like a roll of nickels (http://rollofnickels.blogspot.com)"