Amy Kitchener's Angels Without Wings
Presents the maiden voyage of the space ship
AZNATSYROTS
Introducing crew member

JERRY-MAC JOHNSTON
Springfield, Missouri

AWARD WINNER POETRY
COMING OF AGE

The
Sears catalog
lived beyond its
intended use. Line drawings
of bras and corsets were
an introduction, until finding grandma's collection
of musty National Geographics. Photos of dusky
women from dusky countries I couldn't find on
any map. Their full frontal toplessness was real. Folded
back often enough, the magazines opened magically to those pages, skipping snakes, rain forests and whales. It was only
natural, or at least an obvious progression that
I discovered Hef and the bunny. Slick,
bright, the girl next door. Strategically
draped linens, hands or a
coyly placed book for
the intellectual. Then
there was
you.