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basalt 2006 - issue features longer works by Sandra Kohler, Greg Glazner, John McKinnon, Doug Anderson, Kevin Cahill, and Amy Newman.

Spring 2005

features fine art prints by Native Americans working with the Crow Shadow Institute of the Arts in Mission, Oregon, as well as literary works by Dorianne Laux, Conrad Hilberry, Christopher Howell, Paula Closson Buck, Gary Young, Lex Runciman and others.

Marie Watt | "Omphalos"
Print number for series: CSP 02-110 | A three-color lithograph on Rivers BFK gray.
Paper size: 17.5" x 22.5"

Dorianne Laux

ONE CELL

"...contains a digitally coded datbase larger, in information content, than all 30 volumes of the Encylopedia Britannica put together."

—Richard Dawkins

So in our beds or in the beds of lovers,
when we leave we leave volumes
of information, the book of our days
lost to ourselves, sloughed off into the world.
And as we wander along a city street
we grow new cells, pungent with the old codes,
so we can stop walking, remember
the day we wept openly for a man
in a casket, the night we touched a glass
to our lips and saw all of creation
in a stranger's face. The pain of childbirth
comes back, the scent of magnolia, a song
from a commercial, an afternoon carnival,
a choir. Our cells retain it all, pinhead
sponges soaking up whatever we need
to keep walking, to keep singing into
the blinding darkness ahead.

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