Table of Contents Prologue, For Maggie if ever I may find Her by Carla Martin-Wood xii Epigraph, Bushes by Marie Lightman xv Epilogue, Arthur Rackham 124 POETRY Anent the Scots Leid an its Makars On the Scots Language and its Poets byJames Graham 3 Previously published in "Bewildering Stories" A Recall for Seamus Heaney by Tom Sheehan19 A Father by Pippa Little (from The National Trust Housekeeping Manual) 23 The Slow Walk At The End Of The Day by Akeith Walters 75 December Dusk by Anne Britting Oleson 76 How Winter Reduces Me by Kathleen Cassen Mickelson 78 Trout Fishing with Rommel's Last-known Foe by Tom Sheehan 80 Lock of Hair by Barry Charman 83 To An Old Lover Or Two, Maybe Three, I Forget How Many by Akeith Walters 84 THE GUN by Emily Bilman 25 Armoury by Pippa Little 27 Another Country by Tina Cole 29 The Last Chime by Mr. Harry Lane 70 Rough Surfing by Jim Hatfield 72 Galileo by Beate Sigridaughter 73 Do Not Sing Of Soldiers by Des Dillon 87 Rivers and Roads by David R . Cravens 88 All That 's Left is the Night -After Mark Strand- by Ronald E. Shields 92 Sanctuary Wood Jim Hatfield 95 IMMORTALIT Y by RK Biswas 96 The Ghosts of Devon by Matt Duggan 98 Tears in Spring by Matt Duggan 100 Missing Child by Rp Verlaine 102 SPANISH NEW WORLD POETRY Rubén Darío by Stephen Zelnick 30 ART: Sergio Michilini, "RETRATO DE RUBEN DARIO," 2013, 30 CLASSIC ART Magic Flute Scene by Max Slevogt 8 Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass with a Book (1888), Vincent Van Gogh 18 Red Riding Hood Meets Old Father Wolf, by Gustav Dore 22 The Scapegoat by William Holden Hunt 24 Madame Zborowska with clasped hands (1917), Amedeo Modigliani 26 Landscape with Couple Walking and Crescent Moon, Vincent Van Gogh 28 Child with Red Hat by Mary Cassatt 73 The Vagabonds by Jan Toorop 74 The Bulb Fields by Vincent Van Gogh 78 Ishikawa Goemon pulling a painting of himself out of a lidded jar, Utagawa Toyokuni 83 The Painter and the Art Lover by Pieter Bruegel the Elder 84 Breakfast under the Big Birch by Carl Larsson 88 Sunrise with Monsters by J. M. W. Turner 93 Woods near Oele by Piet Mondrian 94 Men must Work and Women must Weep by James Webb 99 Naked Girl Looking in the Mirror, Goya 14 PHOTOSHOP Marie Fitzpatrick The Poet's Window Overlooking Rob Roy's Castle 1 The Tresaury and the Academy Gray Weather by Camille Pissarro 10 Girl Reading at a Stream 16 Collage, Woman Walking, -- Egon Sheil's Standing Woman and Piet Mondrian, Still Life with Gingerpot 77