Editorial Notes/Contents Credits/Bios Submissions About Jack Magazine Feature Kevin Opstedal: Rare Surf, Vol. 2 Eco-Watch Jnana Hodson: Where Space Upends Essays/Articles Stacy Elaine Dacheux: Marcel and Duchamp Ben Marcus: The Montana Sons, The Getting of Wisdom on Montana's Big Hole River Anthony Wright: Dada Rides Zen Fiction/Nonfiction Vladik Cervantes: American Hospital Jen Cullerton: Splits Tom Sanders: Operation Fishhook Neil Smith: Sustenance D. Harlan Wilson: Avalanche of My Self Anthony Wright: Bad America Path Tucker Marolf: Path thru Pathos: A Homoerotic Journey Through the Rants of a Weiner Kid Poetry/Prose Terri Carrion: Night Surf Colin Dodds: Someone Else's Heaven, Cartoons in his Will, Later Civilization, Plundered Truths, Left Over from a Recent Death, Stare into My Mouth, Not Built for Wisdom Rich Furman: Awakening, Jazz After Masturbation, Mock the Midnight Bell, And, Saved Jack Galmitz: Queens County Morning Candy M. Gourlay: Days of Cloth, Glass Garbage, Cement Stars and Pin Oaks Hammond Guthrie: In a Moment's Time Jayne Fenton Keane: litmus, a father's re-write, shapeshifter Corey Mesler: A Poem for Frank O'Hara, Richard Brautigan: Requiescat in Pace, The Day John Lennon Died Sheila Murphy: Third Aesthetic, Freehand, Green Tea, Bless East, Marlene Marlene, Seven Lines Aidan Semmens: Wave, A Rolling Motion, By the River, A Letter to America Jayne Lyn Stahl: On Waite Street, White Light for Sally Carolyn Welch: Sugar Shack Anthony Wright: Beat Underworlds, New York Funeral Song Politics Surfrider Foundation News & Laguna Beach Photo-Collection Renaissance Ben Marcus: The Price of Gas Reviews Allan Graubard: The Dyn of Wolfgang Paalen Mary Sands: The Cramps, Galaxy Theatre Road Mary Sands: California Trip, 1997 Tea-Party Márton Koppány: Investigations and Valuable Coupons Links Letters to the Editor Archives Contact

New Cove, by Matt Scott Editor: Mary Sands Contributing Editor: Michael Rothenberg Featured Artist: Matt Scott Featured Poet: Kevin Opstedal Photographers: Pamela Dewey, John Gein, and Mary Sands Heading Out, by Matt Scott And now to the particular physics of surf-riding. Get out on a flat board, six feet long, two feet wide, and roughly oval in shape. Lie down upon it like a child on a coaster and paddle with your hands out to deep water, where the waves begin to crest. Lie out there quietly on the board. Sea after sea breaks before, behind, and under and over you, and rushes in to shore, leaving you behind. When a wave crests, it gets steeper. Imagine yourself, on your board, on the face of that steep slope. If it stood still, you would slide down just as a child slides down a hill on his or her coaster. "But,'' you object, "the wave doesn't stand still.'' Very true, but the water composing the wave stands still, and there you have the secret. If ever you start sliding down the face of that wave, you'll keep on sliding and you'll never reach the bottom. Please don't laugh. --Jack London, from The Cruise of the Snark, 1911 Click here for Larry Keenan's art gallery All contents in Jack Magazine are copyrighted by their respective authors and artists, and may not be distributed, placed on other web sites, shared, or copied in any manner without permissions from the owner.