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•  Conditions of Sentient Life • interior artwork by Marge Simon [as by Margaret Ballif Simon]
• 7 • Stars May Rise to Hell and Back • poem by Bruce Boston
• 8 • Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation • (1995) • poem by Bruce Boston
• 10 • Future Past: An Exercise in Horror • (1994) • poem by Bruce Boston
• 12 • Future Perfect: A Plea for Mass Illusion • (1995) • poem by Bruce Boston
• 14 • The Evenings News on the Morning After the Final Solution • poem by Bruce Boston
• 16 • The Bimillennial Blues • poem by Bruce Boston
• 18 • Humans/Technological Dimensions on the Eve of the Bimillennium • poem by Bruce Boston
• 20 • Death of the Steppenwolf • poem by Bruce Boston
• 22 • Poet's Prayer • poem by Bruce Boston
• 23 • Visionary Madness in the Mutant Rain Forest • poem by Bruce Boston
• 24 • Confirmed by the Mutant Rain Forest • [Mutant Rain Forest] • (1995) • poem by Bruce Boston
• 26 • Paws and Puzzles • poem by Bruce Boston
• 28 • The Shellcracker's Reprieve • (1992) • poem by Bruce Boston and Marge Simon
• 30 • Dream of the Burmese Gardener • (1988) • poem by Bruce Boston
• 33 • Crucifixation • poem by Bruce Boston
• 34 • Refugee • poem by Bruce Boston
• 36 • Love Song of the Holo-Celebs • poem by Bruce Boston
• 36 • The Veracity of Imagination • poem by Bruce Boston
• 38 • A Spacer's Life Is Ice and Fire • (1995) • poem by Bruce Boston
• 42 • Conditions of Sentient Life • (1995) • poem by Bruce Boston
• 44 • Gravity Drives the Blood and Bends the Light • poem by Bruce Boston