Contents

Editorial

Epigraph: The Pismire Oration by Margaret Griffiths

The Natural Born Bastard by Mark Allinson

Entomologist by David Gwilym Anthony

Fruit Flies by Carol Berg

The Swedish Dragonfly Weighing Souls by Carol Berg

Discovery of a Literary Artifact by Mark Blaeuer

Kriegspiel by Jared Carter

To the Lightning Bug by Catherine Chandler

An Eternal Golden Braid by David Davis

The Fly... by Ann Drysdale

A Prayer for the Prayer by Martin Elster

The One Not Eaten by Martin Elster

Raining Rain, You Know by Richard Epstein

Pliers by Alan Gould

Ba’al Dhubab by Nigel Holt

Berowra Waters, New South Wales by Clive James

arachne to her love by Rose Kelleher

Anopheles’ Water Dance by Janet Kenny

Articulated by Janet Kenny

The Ant Colonies on Mount Corinth by David W. Landrum

Katydid by Patti McCarty

Starfish Harvest by Amit Majmudar

In-sectio by John Milbury-Steen

June Bugs by Timothy Murphy

Hummingbird by Chris O’Carroll

Lines On a Rescue Fly Trap by Frank Osen

Everything About the Wasp Except Why by Gareth Prunty

The Mantid Waits by Philip Quinlan

Pill Bug by David Rosenthal

The Ant by Don Thackrey

I Am a Scorpion by John Whitworth

Dragonfly Dogfight by Peter Wyton

Migrations by Leo Yankevich

The Guide to Heaven and Hell by Marly Youmans