No. 9
Issue no. 9, our first web issue, dedicated to
Robert Mitchell, dear friend, poet, and co-conspirator on the Linear.
Painting of Robert — Mila Dau
CONTENTS
Cover: Painting of Robert by Mila Dau
‘Ome is Where the Art Is by Clay Patrick McBride
A Farm, In Five Senses by Robert A. Miller
Alaska after the Storm by Robert Griffith
Ashraf by Frank Banton
A Night in Belfast by Pat Morris
A Procession of Clouds (an excerpt) by Lynda Crawford
A Promise Not Kept by Winfried Strathmann
After Rumi by Judy Abrams
At Sea Level by Charles Pierre
Aunts by Renna Zimmer
Beat the Drums: Send Smoke Signals by Sheila Desmond
Beautiful Day by Donna Maria Ramirez
Best Friends by Renna Zimmer
Blatnoy and Ant-Abuse by Michael Graves
Bob’s Bag by Winfried Strathmann
Broken Angels by Lynne Shevlin
But When? by Robert Mitchell / Music by Jim Lahti
Can It Happen? by Nancy Wolitzer
Ceiling by Sarah Douglas
Chaos by Bruce Brown
Chestnut Boulevard by Judy Abrams
Childhood in the Jungles of Scarsdale by Robert Griffith
Chorale by Michael Schuval
Coins in Light by Charles Pierre
Colonel Barkschafter’s Treasure Map by Robert Mitchell and Sibyll Kalff
Corn on the Cob by Eva White
Das Ende by Dennis Leroy Kangalee
Dew by Cathy Kemelmacher
Doing Lunch by Alan Magill
Dressage by Robert Griffith
Driving through Queens by Richard Fein
Exo-me and Unmasked by Gabriella
For Pops by Baba Israel
From Bad to Verse by Eugene Chand
Grigina by Winfried Strathmann
Hastings, UK, August 1964 by Peggy Unsworth
Have You Made Your Arrangements? by Francis Levy
Here is Your Home by Robert Mitchell
House by Nancy Wolitzer
I Love Football by Kat Chua
In Arle, His Room by Michael Schuval
In Dreams by Nikki Stiller
It Just Doesn’t Matter Anymore, or Does It? by Sheila Desmond
J.R. & E.L. by Ellen LaForge
Kleig Light and Moonlight by Michael Graves
Leap by Michael Graves
Machupuchare by Patrick Geoghegan
Maturity by Adele DeWitt
My Lady’s Slipper by Eugene Chand
Now and Then by Eva White
On Love by Ralph Robertson
Orange Sunset by Deborah Matlack
Oscar in the Shadows by Renna Zimmer
Pantoum for Jien Ji by Judy Abrams
Parachute Jump by Deborah Matlack
Path by Patrick Geoghegan
Perhaps by Jon Pierson
Psychedelic Psoul by Donna Maria Ramirez
Purgatory in Modern Terms by Richard Fein
Rare Bird (detail) by Susan Conrad
Remedial by Frank Banton
Respite by Nancy Wolitzer
Robert by Lynda Crawford
Santos by Sally De Jesus
Sculpting Darkness by Adele DeWitt
Shooting Star by Janet Nolan
Shower by Sarah Douglas
Sibyll’s Notebook: Skittles by Sibyll Kalff
Sibyll’s Notebook: Trains by Sibyll Kalff
Somewhere over the South Bronx by Sally De Jesus
Spleen by Dennis Leroy Kangalee
Steep Mountain by Patrick Geoghegan
The Coffin by Adele DeWitt
Tightrope by Susan Conrad
Trapeze by Susan Conrad
True Friend by Winfried Strathmann
Untitled by Moses Hoskins
Untitled 2 by Moses Hoskins
Urban Nomad by Charles Pierre
Vermeer by Ralph Robertson
Verrazano Sunset by Deborah Matlack
War, Childhood, and Peace by Sheila Desmond
Wormery by Peggy Unsworth
Zen Blinks by Bart Plantenga
MaNHaTTaN Linear no. 9 © 2013. Individual ownership remains with the authors and artists.