Cover Art by Mary Josephson:

“Temptation of Eve” (front cover, oil on wood, 41”x48”)

“Summer” (back cover, oil on canvas, 40”x54”)

CALYX, A JOURNAL OF ART AND LITERATURE BY WOMEN

Volume 21  Number 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LOIS CRANSTON MEMORIAL POETRY PRIZE WINNER

Alison Townsend 6 If I Called You River

POETRY

Maria Ercilla 9 Vigil by the Light of the Full Moon

10 Aunt Rose

Robin S. Chapman 26    Discovery Channel

Judith Sornberger 27 What I Heard This Morning Filling the Birdfeeder

28 The Mother of Grown Twins at the Gallery

Sandy Longhorn 30 Light

31 Psalm for the Color Red

Jeanne Emmons 32 Your Underwear Showing

Gretchen Sousa 68 Right Side Up

Helen J. McNaughton     70 A Poem in Nine Parts

Jesse Lee Kercheval 72 Four Months

Maralee Gerke   81 Womb of Womanhood

Virginia Schnurr 82 Rags of the Moon

Lori Mann 84 Late Florescence

Susheela Jayapal 86 Eagles/Bangalore

Pamela Uschuk 88 In Memory of the Acteal Massacre (December 22, 1997)

Rachelle Rogers 89 Reflection

Alice Derry 90 We Were Both About Twenty

Liz Robbins 92 To My Friend, Who Won’t Send Her Poems to a Women’s Magazine out of Respect for Her Husband

PROSE

Sarah Roberts    12 The Cougar Ladies

Cedelas Hall 49 Potato Eyes

Helen Alene Pollack 60 The Adeline Shop

Frances Pettey Davis 73 Rest Stop

Mary Zelinka 94 Forfeiting Motherhood

ART

Janet Lauroesch 33 Wake Up, Little Schoolgirl I

Liz Walker 34 Wash on Monday and Iron on Tuesday

35 Mend on Wednesday and Market on Thursday

36 Clean on Friday and Bake on Saturday

37 Rest on Sunday

Sandy Roumagoux 38     Purification of the Innocent

Toni Truesdale 39 Ode to the Makonde

Gwen Davidson 40 Ghost

41   Limmer

Lli Wilburn 42 99E at N.E. Hancock

43 Vancouver Avenue Bridge

Janet McKenzie 44 Magna Mater

45 Hope

Mary Josephson 46 Waiting out the Rain

47 Headdress

Holly Calica 48 Grandma & Ryan

NORTHWEST BOOK REVIEWS

Deborah Woodard 109 Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire by Carolyne Wright

Patricia Bollin111 The Wild Awake by Paulann Petersen

BOOK REVIEWS

Diane Lockward 112 Silk Elegy by Sondra Gash

Adrianne Kalfopoulou 114 Mules of Love by Ellen Bass

Claire Keyes 115 Little River: New and Selected Poems by Linda McCarriston

Elizabeth Costello 116 Curled in the Bed of Love by Catherine Brady

Angela M. Salas 118 The Secret of Hurricanes by Theresa Williams

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES

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