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Staff, Acknowledgements, Gratitude
Byron Beynon
Beethoven’s Tuning Fork
Brooking Caldwell
Tankas on Love’s Double
Waiting at the Well
John Philip Drury
To Nuclear Winter
Olympian Ode 11
Thames Joseph Ellis
Citizenry
Kimberly Green
like sky
Due Date
Riddle
Hawk, Crab
Signe Hammer
De Kooning’s Women
Roger W. Hecht
The juncos don’t
Kathleen Hellen
any decent man
white bird
brief history of an 80-year-old pignose hickory
Ken Holland
Before the Storm
Paul Jones
Overpass
Victoria Korth
Yellow Triangle
Shrivelment and Namelessness
Peggy Liuzzi
Asymmetry
“at night”
Raymond Luczak
My Favorite Hearing Aid
Richard Lyons
To M. Beckmann Regarding the Apple of the World
Leslie Adrienne Miller
Chiroptera
Shoveling
The Damned One
M. Nasorri Pavone
Unlicensed Nine-Year-Old Therapist
Terry Quinn
The Snail on the Stair
And This Morning, a Dead Moth in Our Mailbox
Kelly R. Samuels
I am Speaking of a Tree
Matthew Schmidt
Oceanside, California, 2007
NINE MILE MAGAZINE

Publisher: Nine Mile Art Corp.
Editors: Stephen Kuusisto, Andrea Scarpino, and David Weiss
Founding Editor: Bob Herz
Managing Editor: Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri
Cover Art by Elena Ciletti
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The publishers gratefully acknowledge support of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. We also acknowledge support of the County of Onondaga and CNY Arts through the Tier Three Project Support Grant Program. This project is made possible with a General Support/Tier Three Project Support grant from the County of Onondaga, with the support of County Executive Ryan McMahon and the Onondaga County Legislature, administered by CNY Arts, and the Propel Foundation.
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