CURRENT ISSUE (#44)
Spring / Summer 2009

HAYDEN'S FERRY REVIEW

FALL/WINTER 1990 ISSUE 7

Fiction

Gloria Naylor
Mama Day [23]

Dinty W. Moore
Same River Twice [26]

Katharine Coles
The Suburbs of Eden [33]

Jeffery Ford
The Last Half [57]

Susann Cokal
Where You Came From [70]

Sharon Christenson
Cleaning [81]

Deborah Bayer
The Piano Man [93]

Jeffrey Sacks
Flesh [102]

Poetry

Jeannine Savard
On Earth as It Is in this Dream [30]
Forced Feeding [69]
Celtic Love, A Blood Memory [97]

Gary Thompson
Words Stay [31]
Lunch [66]

Mary Granata
In the Asian Section of the Cleveland Art Museum [54]

Chip Dameron
Hook and Bloodline [55]

D. Nurkse
Rope [62]

Charles Coyle
for John Berryman [63]

Philip Sterling
The Voice Discovers Betrayal [64]
My Cousin's Scar [79]

Dzvinia Orlowsky
Visiting Father in Spring [65]

Cecile Goding
Chanteuse--1955 [75]

Joan Fiset
The Cinder Garden [77]

Juliet Crichton
the angry poem [90]

Karen Bowden
Cat [96]

Eva Heisler
Margaret Fuller in the Abruzzi Mountains, June 1848 [99]

Janice Lynch
The Past [100]

Richard Long
Trace the Scar [101]

Jed Allen
Trees and Mirrors [103]

Art

Editor's Note: The editors have chosen works of art that express diverse interpretations of myth, however, any relation between that editorial theme and the artist's intent may be purely coincidental.

Dan Collins
Semiotics in Paradise [25]

Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Preacher [29]
Bare Skin [92]

Lewis Alquist
Facsimile: Trojan Horse Letter Bomb [32]

Holly Roberts
Coyote with Yellow Arm [51]
Man Being Touched [52]
Boogie Man [53]

Dana Salvo
Nativity Altar With Serpent [60]
Nicho [61]

Marie Navarre
Motives [68]

Roy DeForest
Bigfoot I [95]

Interview

Mary Aleta White
To Form Words: An Interview with Gloria Naylor [7 ]

Contributor's notes [104]

Hayden's Ferry Review Issue 7 Cover

Issue 7 Staff

Managing Editor
Salima Keegan

Fiction Editors
Barbara Nelson
Mary Aleta White

Poetry Editors
Mary Gannon
Elizabeth McNeil

Art Editors
Nancy Fewkes
Don Leddick

Contributing Editor
Wendy White-Ring

Editorial Assistants
Michelle Skinner
Kelleen Zubick

Editorial Advisor
Ron Carlson

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Poetry Selection – Dzvinia Orlowsky, Visiting Father in Spring

Once a year we come
to kneel, to thank him
for advice we only pretend to hear.
Across the road, fields
turn green with rain.
I cast my prayers
up like birds determined
not to drop back to earth,
while Mother weeds the ground
for a vase of hyacinth,
not asking for my help,
as if only her hands, not mine,
could keep a promise.

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Fiction Selection – Gloria Naylor, from Mama Day

Willow Springs. Everybody knows but nobody talks about the legend of Sapphira Wade. A true conjure woman: satin black, biscuit cream, red as Georgia clay: depending upon which of us takes a mind to her. She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start kindling going under her medicine pot: depending upon which of us takes a mind to her. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into a swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four. It ain't about right or wrong, truth or lies; it's about a slave woman who brought a whole new meaning to both them words, soon as you cross over here from beyond the bridge.