Foreword by Fatima Shahnaz               Law of the Ocean      Karla Linn Merrifield                  The Upside Down River      Tad Wojnicki                    January 1, 2005      Brett Axel                    Untitled      Jörgen Johansson                     Grace      Diane Ackerman                     Spring      David Oliveira                     She Wrote      Lois P. Jones                     daughter sees blemish      Ray Craig                          Untitled      Shin Yu Pai                     After the Wave, Another: Nam Jai      Laurie Klein                     So You Will Not Ask God Why      Chelle Miko                     The Visible Ones "Eat Leaves"      Barbara Tomaine                     Sensing Foreignness      Mary Strong Jackson                     ellipses in the carpet      James Warner                     Hollow Bones      Renée Roehl                     What You Will Believe      Irene O'Garden                     dinosaurs      Ameena Mayer                     Stone      Lucy Anderton                     Swim (Plivam)      Natasa Bozic Grojic                     The Second, Vacation      Frank Simone                     Shoulders      Naomi Shihab Nye                     On the Path to Jericho      Helen Losse                     Untitled      Andrew Riutta                     `City of the Sea'      Fatima Shahnaz                     Pain is God's Love      Maria Alexander                     Floater      Gary Lehmann                     Returning      Katherine James                     Walking Through Fallen Berries      Tara L. Masih                     Leaving      David Chorlton                     post-diluvian      Steve Dalachinsky                     By The Sky Rain Black Tears (Del Cielo Llueven      Lágrimas Negras)      Iris Pérez Ulloa

Satellite      MaryJo Martin                     The Great Quake of Sumatra, 2004      Valery Oisteanu Nam Jai      Nick Carbo                     Whatever the Sea      Anjana Basu                     Heart      Sparrow                          the many  the few      Marcielle Brandler                     The Dark Continent      Teresa White                     Waterloo Village      Patricia Roth Schwartz                The Women Who Survived      H.T. Harrison                     Plaint      Aleda Shirley                           The Last Wave      Michael Hillmer                     These Bones Remember      Anthony Russell White                Untitled      Jason Sanford Brown                     Praying to the Gods      Thaddeus Rutkowski                Beyond This Breath      Victory Lee Schouten                     Moving to Higher Ground      Colette Jonopulos                     The Wall of Water      Lisa Ezzard                     Miracle      Roberta Gould                     The Slowly Disappearing Elephant in the Room      Alan Semerdjian                     Flooding Heaven      Kirpal Gordon                     Something for the New Year      Donald Lev                     You See How It Happened      Laura Foley                     Surrender      Scott Wiggerman  The Moon on the Tsunami      Kate Gray                          Gathering in the North Wind      Patricia Wellingham-Jones                Come Here. Take Heart      Verandah Porche                     Tsunami      Carl Stilwell                     total eclipse, new year: 2005      Eve Packer                     What's Left      Taylor Graham                     I've Come Down From the Peak      Roger Aplon                     Shadows of Melancholy      Susan Norton                     Wake Up, Little Sister      Ruth Knafo Setton Curve      R.M. Engelhardt

The Orphans of Tangshan      Colette Inez On Water      Rayn Roberts     aftermath      Michaela A. Gabriel                     A Dirge for Two-Hundred Thousand:      For the Tsunami Victims, 2005      Ravi Shankar                     White Diamonds      Prasenjit Maiti                     In the Arms of Water      Sharon Olinka                     Disaster Relief      John Gorman                     Follow the Directions on Page 226      Jennifer Hill-Kaucher                     "Pass the Sugar"      Gregory Miller                     The Moon Will Claim Me      Diane di Prima                     While You Were Sleeping      George Wallace                     Hush      Katherine Tracy                     Bells for Mindfulness      Thomas J. Baier                     For You      Craig Czury                     Not Our Sea           Jennifer Browne                     An Argument With Memory      Marge Piercy                     Kaira Peace      Sung to Bob Holman by Papa Susso           unholy waters      Gerald Schwartz                     It Was Apparent to the Orphans           Amy Ouzoonian                     The Stream      Dale Edmands                     We Were On a Train and the Train Screeched      Lyn Lifshin                     Aftermath      Selene Steese                     Untitled      Juanito Escareal                     Crying in My Heart      Fofana M.L.                     Basket of Figs      Ellen Bass                     Untitled      Denis Emorine      translated by Pradip Choudhuri                Excerpts from "Justice Because"      Jesús Papoleto Meléndez                Clear White Stream      Marilyn Chin                     Salomon Mercado      Nancy Mercado