CURRENT ISSUE (#50)
Spring/Summer 2012

HAYDEN'S FERRY REVIEW

SPRING 1989 ISSUE 4

Fiction

Bob Schacochis
Les Femmes Creoles [13]

Renee A. Ashley
Rough Slices [47]

Jeffrey Ford
Never [71]

Phillip McNally
Poison Pen [77]

Pauline Mortensen
The House Painting Deal [105]

Poetry

Richard Robbins
The Whale [9]
Political Poem #3 [10]
About Us [11]

Frank Stewart
Summer Aubade [12]

Quinton Duval
Red Hair [37]

Naomi Wallace
Traveling the Same Place [42]
The Farewell [43]

Leigh Kirkland
The World Ends at Fairfax High School [44]

Janice Dabney
Half Moon Bay [44]

Donnell Hunter
A Few Words of Advice for Emma Bovary [46]

Rick Alley
Primary Detail [66]

Boyer Rickel
The Bloated Goldfish [67]

Amy Slaven
Effects of Gin and Childhood on My Sister [68]
Disassembling [69]

Brian Young
Bad Water Experiment [70]

Sheila E. Murphy
Sunflower [74]

Carole Stone
Souvenir [75]
Welcome to New Smyrna Beach [76]

Paul Zarzski
She Counts on the Turtle's Tree-Ring Scutes [102]
Wondering where the Blind Boy Goes at Night [103]

Catherine Sasanov
Excavations: The Pigs of Gardara/The Bones in a Wall [104]

Beckian Fritz Goldberg
First Crazy [122]
Bad Sleep [124]

Ruth Schwartz
Father, After the Divorce [126]

Dennis Schmitz
Catfishing [127]

Raymond Carver
Cherish [134]
One More [135]

Art

Anne Noggle
Facelift, 1975 [38]
Reminiscence: Portrait with My Sister, 1980 [39]
From a Series: Recent Follies, Two of Us, 1985 [40]
Stellar by Starlight #2, 1986 [41]

Joanne Lynch
Untitled [60]

Robbie Steinbach
My Stepfather's Den [61]

Elizabeth Layton
Self-Portrait, Void [62]
Self-Portrait, Stroke [63]

Martin Pearce
Time Portrait [64]

Stefan Krikl
Tief Im Bohmerwald [65]

Harry Wilson
Self -Portrait Turning 40 [118]

Paul M. Romejko
Untitled [119]

Mark Klett
A portrait of the artist and his father, 9/8/81 [120]

Kimberly Liedel
The Visit, #2 [121]

Essay

Dennis Schmitz
Secret Places: A Remembrance of Ray Carver [129]

Interview

Catherine French
Gary Short
An Interview with Richard Ford [139]

Contributors [160]

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Issue 4 Staff

Managing Editor
Salima Keegan

Fiction Editors
Candice St. Jacques Miles
Katrina Larsen

Poetry Editors
Catherine French
Ramon Martinez

Art and Design Editor
Rebecca Ross

Contributing Editors
Kevin Dobbs
Gary Short
Catherine Zinck

Editorial Assistants
Terese Hudson
Wendy Ring

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Poetry Selection – Raymond Carver, Cherish

From the window I see her bend to the roses
holding close to the bloom so as not to
prick her fingers. With the other hand she
clips, pauses and
clips, more alone in the world
than I had known. She won't
look up, not now. She's alone
with roses and with something else I can only
think, not
say. I know the names of those bushes

given for our late wedding: Love, Honor,
Cherish--
this last the rose she holds out to me suddenly having
entered the house between glances. I press
my nose to it, draw the sweetness in, let it
cling--scent
of promise, of treasure. My hand on her
wrist to bring her close
her
eyes green as river-moss. Saying it then,
against
what comes: wife, while I can, while my
breath, each hurried
petal
can still find her.

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Fiction Selection – Jeffrey Ford, from Never

First thing, we asked if we had to go to church. My mother said no, but that we should say a good Act of Contrition. We kneeled on our bunk beds, myself on the bottom one and my brother above, and we had a race to see who could say it faster. My mother called down the hall and said it was no good. We started over, this time screaming each syllable until she finally told us to shut up. Then my brother and I ate cereal and my little sister did decoupage at the breakfast table. The smoke hung low and swirled as my parents talked about when they were young. After the dishes were cleared, we visited Nan and Pop in the garage. Nan gave us lady fingers, and Pop played his wind-up drummer, Indian Joe, and tried to make us repeat curse words we had never heard before.