fall 2020
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageFragments of a World Dayna Patterson
In a Dark Field Jesse Sensibar
The Northern Flicker Identic Andrew Lafleche
Netsuke When We Wake Together in a Lost City Iris Jamahl Dunkle
What We Do When We Run Out of Elephants Shareen K. Murayama
My Father's House A.N. Higgins
Okapi Wood Bison Kristi Maxwell
verses upon the burning of our house Amanda Merpaw
Neurons, Metal, Seed Reading Rocks and Mountains Susan Landgraf
from Vanishing Twin Syndrome: VII James Cagney
Pattern Recognition Tolu Oloruntoba
One exists The embroidering light you learn J.I. Kleinberg
Horses Innocence, Experience Ryan Eavis
The Narrow Road to Deep Marriage John Wall Barger
Bracketed A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare Danielle Badra
Routes on the Red Subarctic Archipelago Tongue Heather Simeney MacLeod
Bingo Card for the End Times Milla van der Have
Pattern Recognition
From the crash of Paleolithic
dusk on concentric days:
it’s a circular route
and a roving dome of dark.
The companion of
moments ago will dissolve,
become a carousel of arms,
a whir of charcoal into black
and I a coat hanger of pleas,
boxing the envelope
of blindness. Approaching
the other rotor in my space,
the thrum of electrostatic
greeting startles, the memory of
voltage attracts, the friction of
sensate digs spurs the canter,
collection of charge for later
experiments, the calibrations, through
chest walls, of hooves bearing
a mute, unravelling eureka, harried,
hurrying. In the half-decade of nighttime
necessities, a suggestion of warmth,
a rumor of a contained dawn below,
a sputter, for us to see the invention of fire.