   
            About the Artist  
            Mark Flowers is now mounting his fifth  
              one-person show with Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina. Throughout his career,  
              he has won numerous awards in both regional and national art competitions. He has taught art at the secondary and post-secondary levels for more than 24 years.  
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          About the Poet  
            Stewart Florsheim has poetry in DoubleTake, Seattle Review, and Slipstream. His poetry is also included in the anthologies Unsettling America: Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary American Poetry, Bittersweet Legacy, and And What Rough Beast. He is the editor of Ghosts of the Holocaust, an anthology of poetry by children of Holocaust survivors.  
            Acknowledgments  
            Many of these poems originally appeared elsewhere: “The Girl Eating Oysters” in Round Table (1986), “My Father’s Autopsy” in DoubleTake (Fall 1996), “Exposed” in Rattle 14 (2000), “Thirst” in 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry (December 2001), “Survival” in The Seattle Review (2002), “Initiation” and “The Unseen” in Full Circle (2003), and “The Hairdresser” in The Great American Poetry Show (2004).  
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          Contents 
             Mother to Son  
              The Elevator  
              Initiation  
              The Cub Scout  
              Parting Words  
              The Girl Eating Oysters  
              The Psychiatrist  
              Munch, on Dagny Juell  
              The Jewish Bride  
              My Five-Year-Old Poses the Question about God  
              Survival  
              Man on the Bus Gazes at his Roses  
              Exposed  
              My Father’s Autopsy  
              The Diagnosis  
              The Hairdresser  
              Thirst  
              The Unseen  
              Forsaken  
              Unspoken  
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            Dedication  
            © 2004 by  
              Stewart Florsheim   |