"Scientific Purposes" makes Best of Boston Literary Magazine, Vol 2

I wrote about the story behind the poem HERE


It is with pride and gratitude that the poem "Scientific Purposes" is included in  
The Best of Boston Literary Magazine, Volume 2.

The cover looks like this:

Thanks, as always, to Robin Stratton. Science is amazing
















Table of Contents

Introduction
Doug Holder

Driven
Barbara Meikle

What Wives Do
Len Joy

Local News
Alison Futterman

A Fine Line & Tongues
Lucy Spinetti

Making the Most of It
Michael A. Wells

Provisions
Noel Sloboda

Creeping Fire
Jeffrey H. MacLachlan

Bay Watch
Sarah Hilary

Better than Bingo
Meg Tuite

Summer Cottage
Elizabeth Cleary

How it Looks
Joan Mazza

Injustice
Rebecca Leo

little seasons
Ivy Alvarez

Lavendar

David Licata

You Changed Your Mind

Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz

Crooked Painting

Stephanie Sguigna

Communion

Brady Peterson

Sorry for Breaking In

Matthew Salesses

Nine Lines

Andrea Fischer

Velvet

Tina Barry

Whiteout

Janice Krasselt Tatter

Driving Ms. Nora

Nadine Gallo

2035 & Tidbits

Lesley Mace

Humanely Unwritten & Unexcuses

Steve Meador

The Last Charade

Avis Hickman-Gibb

Take Off

Robert Swartwood

Clouseau “Clue” Curtis

Mary Pacifico Curtis

Shark Bait

Sarah Hilary

A Short Detour

Robert Scotellaro

Cross Country

Adam Eisman

Meat Market

Sylvia Spruck Wrigley

Mrs. Plant

Doug Holder

Mr. Dobson

Brian Fanelli

Puzzle of a Downfall Child

Howie Good

New Posting

Doug Mathewson

A Trifle

Keith Tornheim

What we are waiting for

Dale Wisely

Death Row Hugger

Nancy Stohlman

Hospital Parking Lot

Terri Kirby Erickson

Habits Die Hard

Linda Simoni-Wastila

The Solitude of Noise

Michael C. Keith

Air Harp Would be Better

Robert Scotellaro

My Father Leaves a Voice Mail

Karen Loeb

Alone at the End of the World

Tommy Dean

No Filter

Paul Beckman

Turning Silk into a Sow’s Purse

Jeff Burt

Trust Me

Steve Klepetar

Than Never to Have Loved at All

Jeff Switt

That Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Brad Rose

New Season & Autumn Festival

Craig W. Steele

They Call it Love

Levi Andrew Noe

Almost

Kimberly Misra

Cousin Timothy
Patty Rossi

A Dog Digging Up his Master’s Grave
Doug Holder

A Smooth Ride
Catherine Arra

Growing Up in a Ford Fairlane
Jo Barbara Taylor

Last Dance
Peggy Trojan

Husband’s Mouth
Trisha Wheeldon

Thanksgiving
Rex Stocklin

Sipping Wine on the Porch, Sunrise, Kayaking & Open Windows
Rose Kowaliw

Watercolors & Bed Spread

dl mattila

Tried to do a Little Better

Tim Suermondt

Family Time

Jayne Martin

Tomboy

Ed Severson

The Essence of the Beach

Kristin MacIsaac

The Test

Gloria Garfunkel

Espionage

Richard Schnap

Chopin

Melissa Palmer

Who I Am in a Traffic Jam

Amye Archer

Senior Moment & The Muse

Doug Mathewson

Waiting

Barry Basden

Shivering

Liz N. Clift

Living the “Art Life”

Christopher Reilley

Instincts

Jane Banning

Blue Jars

Laura Rodley

A Week on the Road with My Dad

Bill Glose

After the Whistle

Tony Press

Marriage Champion

Jeff Deck

Bobbing Heads

Jon Sindell

Hospice Nurse

Myra King

Porches

E. Suzin Odlen