CHIRPS FROM THE SPARROW Wearing a Grey Crepe, Editor Diane Smith GREY SPARROW’S NATIONAL TREASURE IS JULIANA SPAHR Ars Poetica 1: Coral, Juliana Spahr POETRY Who Writes History, Mark Danowsky The Tattered Fabric of His Land, Jim Tilley Refugee, James G. Piatt Three Poems: Playground, Faster Than, and Pin, Porsche Jones Now!, Stephen Philip Druce Woodpecker, J.R. Solonche Night Comes, Peter Krok Disturbed Reminded, Dr. Roger A. Singer Back of the Alphabet, Marc Janssen A Child Counts Stars at the Border, David Anson Lee Small Aircraft, Dwindling Down-sky, Clark Watson Holtzman Nectarines Rubbed, Peter J. Dellolio A Shed in Snow, Lynne Potts Flower, Dean Baltesson I Knew a Girl, William Miller Just Once, Claire Scott the lift of your hand was too simple a gesture, Laura Ann Reed Wouldn’t you be afraid of such a faith? Massimiliano Nastri