The Lost Country Spring 2013 Buy Issue Download Issue Contents Note from the Editor Poetry Thomas A. Beyer A harvest moon in winter La Città Eterna The Old Songs Donald Carlson The Cost Nightfall Daybreak Bethany Collier Guiding Light Michael Lee Johnson If I Were Young Again Tyler Morrison Babylon Crossing the Rubicon The Wings B. R. Mullikin August Andrew Nicholson The End of Summer IV James B. Nicola On The Way Richard King Perkins, II Statuesque Tom Pescatore There’s too Much Paper Left Promise Bop Chiara Solari Susurrus The Tempest The Weight of Light Gerald Solomon All The Time Far Rockaway By The Sea Maria Stromberg Melpomene Mosaic Fragments Sally Thomas Aunts Burial in Holy Week Detachment In Praise of Punctuation Fiction Amanda Grace Poore The Main Street Thrift Store Ron Shannon Clean Baby Translation Maria Stromberg Horace, Book 3, Ode 4 Pablo Neruda Sonnet 17 Criticism Judith Stewart Shank Fathoming “Cliffs of Fall Frightful”: Hamlet’s Mapping of the Tragic Abyss Maria Stromberg The Face of Ungit: C. S. Lewis’ Adaptation of Apuleius in Till We Have Faces Review Thomas A. Beyer The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, 2nd ed