Contents


Steve Mason

Founding Convention Poem
After The Reading Of The Names


Jim Heck

Killed Some V.C.


Jon Forrest Glade

The Dark Side Of The Moon
The Weight Of The Sheets
Blood Trail * Card Tricks


David Willson

Frogs Sympathy
A Fragment Of Memory--1965
Bone In The Soil * Alms For The Burned
My War Dreams


Robert Schlosser

Buffalo Induction/Essay
First Night In Thailand * Plane Down
Nightmare Fair * Fear Of Sky Death
Jukebox Soul Brain * Learn


W.D. Ehrhart

A Relative Thing
To Those Who Have Gone Home Tired
The Invasion Of Grenada * Letter
Midnight At The Vietnam Veterans Memorial


Andrew Gettler

American Koan
The Old Guard
Toi Com Biet
Linda's Poem


Bill Shields

Wife Abattoir
Hell Must Be Full--The Dead Are Walking The Earth
Floorplan To A Lease * For My Daughers
There Is No Metaphor For The Pain
Tour Of Duty * We Circle One Another
Straight From The heart
Sucking In The Blues Through A Chipped Nose
The True Taste Of An Asshole


Jerome Gold

What I Saw


David Connolly

Tet, Plus Twenty four * It Don't Mean Nothing
Died In Vietnam * On Veteran's Day
The Little Man * Why I Can't
In His Father's Footsteps


Kevin Bowen

First Casualty * West Of Tay Ninh
Willie, Dancing * Guard Duty, Ben Hoa, 1963
Nui BA Den; Black Virgin Mountain
Temple At Quan Loi, 1969
Body Count: The Dead At Tay Ninh


B.D. Trail

Hazardous To My Health
Snapshot
Our Lady Of The Flies
With My Shield Or On it
The Grenading


Dock Burke

Version of B. D. Trail's Obituary


Jabuya Dragonsun

War Songs


Gary Rafferty

Last Asylum
Diplomatic Recognition
Prayer For The First Casualty
Long Time, No See


Richard Levine

Pete Sweeney Of Prospect Park
A War Story


Pauline Hebert

Intrusive Thoughts * Essay
Shock * Vacation
Luck * The Girl I Was


Gary Imlay

A Child Of God
Walking Point


Bill Jones

The Body Burning Detail
Five Days Home


Rod McQueary

Homeward
Breaking Chains


Don Blackburn

I Am Here To Tell You


Larry Winters

War Milt
essay
Old men Are Bastards


Victor Bausch

Liberation * Perimeter


Horace Coleman

Cracks In The Wall
Talking And Toking
Ok Corral East * Exiled In America
Flash Foward


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