Welcome to the December 2001 issue of the KotaPress Poetry Journal. Holidays can be difficult or fabulous, fun or frantic. Whatever your experience, we hope you find something peaceful and healing here at KotaPress this holiday season.

Table of Contents
1.  Dark      by Ron Cross	2.    The Pomegranate Sky          by Patricia Joe Schuman
3.  Numbers      by Al Michael	4.   Note to Pearl, Mother's Day 1988       by Thomas Lee Rhymes
5.  The Moon Bears Witness      by Kim Shaver	6.   The Man in the Moon       by Kathleen Redling
7.  Surface People      by Gisele Marasca	8.   A Note - for You to Forget Me       by Mariano Rivera
9.  Lost Child      by Dennis Moore	10.  Winter       by Roxianne Moore
11.  Sunset Rider       by Emily Reynolds	12.  Miscarriage       by Bill Duvall
13.  Non-Persistence of Memory       by Trevor Hewett	14.  Orphan       by Kimberly J. Stauder
15. River Of Grief      by William Brown	16.  Kim Chee Accord       by Lesley McConnell
17. 2 Healing Poems      by Mary Harrison	18.  Waiting       by Kara L.C. Jones
19.  Wind Spirit       by Charlene Roberts	20.  Woman/Women       by Jeanne Marie Spicuzza