by Loring Taoka Plant 1 Deborah Poe Becoming Between 5 Poems Painting by Loring Taoka 3 Ian Bean Moore A Critic is Born 13 Richard Epstein Passing Strange 15 Sara Mattson Bare Skinned Eureka 4 Fiction Painting by Loring Taoka 16 In This Issue... Jeff Gibbs Make This Bed with Awe 33 Brendan Carlin Pretending I’m not High; Or, When My Whore of a Wife, Charlotte, Asked Me Why our Son is Grounded 14 K.J. Stevens July 30th, 2005, 10:07 am 38 Creative Nonfiction Painting by Loring Taoka 32 2