spring 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageTensions Orange Bottles Sean Singer
orange socks there are bad men at the top Kate LaDew
Across This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
Terrigenous Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Magnetic Resonance Lisa Mulrooney
Six Thousand Dollars Cole Depuy
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
When the Time Comes Soothing Cameron Morse
Catastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane Sabyasachi Nag
Against All Odds Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Sophocles Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle Charles Kell
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
Orange Bottles
Today in the taxi an elderly man got out and left his pills. I hesitated and called for him, but he didn’t hear.
Imagining his stroke in the building’s lobby, or a cancer eating his liver in the elevator, I left the car and chased him down.
I was the copper snake on a bed of ropes. Then I remembered the Midrash said When we do good, we must do it joyfully.