fall 2020
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageThe Northern Flicker Identic Andrew Lafleche
The Narrow Road to Deep Marriage John Wall Barger
verses upon the burning of our house Amanda Merpaw
from Vanishing Twin Syndrome: VII James Cagney
Routes on the Red Subarctic Archipelago Tongue Heather Simeney MacLeod
My Father's House A.N. Higgins
Bracketed A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare Danielle Badra
Netsuke When We Wake Together in a Lost City Iris Jamahl Dunkle
In a Dark Field Jesse Sensibar
Neurons, Metal, Seed Reading Rocks and Mountains Susan Landgraf
Okapi Wood Bison Kristi Maxwell
One exists The embroidering light you learn J.I. Kleinberg
Bingo Card for the End Times Milla van der Have
What We Do When We Run Out of Elephants Shareen K. Murayama
Pattern Recognition Tolu Oloruntoba
Horses Innocence, Experience Ryan Eavis
Fragments of a World Dayna Patterson
When We Wake Together in a Lost City
House erected on hammock land: sight it
between water’s sink and swell. What’s wild
islanded, twitching its fly-infested
flanks. History provides: handwritten maps
blue throated ghosts whose unearthed bodies
under deck’s teeth speak in low fog and wind.
Can’t know which way to paddle in a small
stuttering boat. But islands, sand barges
arrive. Rise. Disappear. With fickle tide—
shipwrecks undersurface.
The wild chestnut horses bend to muzzle
and feed on what the sea has left them: knots
we can never untie. An obstinate
distance we learn to map inside ourselves.