spring 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageTerrigenous Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Sophocles Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle Charles Kell
Against All Odds Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
Magnetic Resonance Lisa Mulrooney
Across This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
orange socks there are bad men at the top Kate LaDew
Six Thousand Dollars Cole Depuy
When the Time Comes Soothing Cameron Morse
Tensions Orange Bottles Sean Singer
Catastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane Sabyasachi Nag
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
Against All Odds
we’ve shared twelve-thousand days and more
weathered ice-storms, power failures, several
cats, re-negotiated mortgages and joy
love’s fierce trajectories —
equal parts laughter, sadness, subtle alchemies
lately, I’ve been dreaming grassy pools
moist sand, birds the colours of crushed coral —
fragile, thin-boned, soft —
perhaps a snowy egret, plovers
or sand pipers rumpled white — no sense
of why — they seemed deliberate
induced perhaps by cinnamon, lemon, or stevia
shaken well — three sprays
under the tongue — the murmur of nuns
poems, promises and paths
while all I ask are breath and you — to find my
way through fog and wilderness — a stone
to walk on water, lightly