JANET I. BUCK The Drug War JEFFREY C. ALFIER Early Babylon Blues AVERIL BONES Watching the Sky CHRISTOPHER MULROONEY expostulation WENDY L. HAMMOND The Man In The Moon JEAN HULL HERMAN Margy's Monologue: Everything's Fine DAVE JACKSON When You Take the Toll MICHAELEEN PENNINGTON Hermitted RICHARD JORDAN insomnia ABIGAIL B. CALKIN The Washout SHANNON L. PUGH Evolution RICHARD FEIN William Bendix, Babe Ruth, and Dad

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ANNE M. HUDSON To the Girl on the Threshold PRASENJIT MAITI To America KARIANNA JOHNSON Along With The Stars Stéphane Mallarmé "Rue, at 23, Ballu" (tr. C. Mulrooney) WENDY L. HAMMOND Holy, Holy? ...War JEAN HULL HERMAN And Then, The New Year: 2001 (Margy's Monologue continued) DAVE JACKSON "if the snow..." PRAVDA headlines DYAN SANDEFER It Don't Add Up WARD KELLEY Ka Inside a Pyramid Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "On Rhyming" John Horvath Jr ENDNOTE: My Wife Said (911)

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I know that the occasional poem (one celebrating or memorializing an event) is a legitimate genre; however, PoetryRepairShop has not published such poetry. Recent events require a change in policy; this event is indeed international. I hope such poetry may give solace to those who suffered loss during the September 11 attacks. Personally, I have difficulty with the enormity, the Biblical proportions of this evil act. I know; some in the world will see the New York WTC fall as the tower of Babylon or as the walls of Jericho; but, I see it as a failure of faith, as the fall of Adam into total depravity; again Satan demonstrates complete hatred for the innocent. I pray victory for America in its enduring justice against to terror.