fall 2019
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Return to Home Page{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson
after a suicide Liam Strong
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
Inherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
Not really a father, John Sibley Williams
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
Concurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
after a suicide
for Jayme
there is no right thing to do.
i pissed on the church
you had done the same to
twenty years ago. i inherited
no piss for the next three hours.
i wasn’t even drunk. on the walk home
the first branch of a rabbit
split on the road this season.
the powerline maintenance sawed
two dozen trees down the next morning.
weeks later, the stumps. a pyrite afterbirth
from the removal.
i want to piss into the mounds
where a hole should have been.
let there be some flower or fungus
dumb enough to grow in my creases.
let there be a rain uncaring enough
to wriggle a garden from our places, our piss.
let there be nothing left to remember us
by, but what we leave behind more than
any other thing.