fall 2020
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageBracketed A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare Danielle Badra
Pattern Recognition Tolu Oloruntoba
Routes on the Red Subarctic Archipelago Tongue Heather Simeney MacLeod
Neurons, Metal, Seed Reading Rocks and Mountains Susan Landgraf
verses upon the burning of our house Amanda Merpaw
from Vanishing Twin Syndrome: VII James Cagney
The Narrow Road to Deep Marriage John Wall Barger
In a Dark Field Jesse Sensibar
Netsuke When We Wake Together in a Lost City Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Horses Innocence, Experience Ryan Eavis
Fragments of a World Dayna Patterson
One exists The embroidering light you learn J.I. Kleinberg
What We Do When We Run Out of Elephants Shareen K. Murayama
The Northern Flicker Identic Andrew Lafleche
My Father's House A.N. Higgins
Bingo Card for the End Times Milla van der Have
Okapi Wood Bison Kristi Maxwell
Bracketed
—after Philip Metres
Identity isn’t [always easy to identify
there is blood and belief and] an end—
it’s a portal, [the acquisition of language,
the untrained turns of tongue,] a deportation
from the country [profiting off precise word-fare by
attacking ancient inkwells, those dark pools] of mirrors,
an inflection [inside the terrified esophagus
instinctual utterance of danger] within a question,
punctuation is [the alternative to silence
this revolution is illegible] the sentence
of birth [and death is a foreign dialect].