fall 2021
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageSomewhere within Kostanay, Kazakhstan Justin Timbol
Boy With Orange Phillip Watts Brown
She's a Pretty Bird Susan Zimmerman
Making the Most of Our Voices Ken Victor
When I See Lake Water Kristin LaFollette
What We Carry on a Pilgrimage Granada, Take Three Elena Johnson
On the Straightaway to the Rockies Great Grandpa's Grain Elevator A Nova Scotian Night Light Ryan Smith
No One Knows How to Be Good Emily Kedar
Upon Watching the Rotation of the Earth Charlotte Vermue Peters
i decay, bro erica hiroko isomura
The Graveyard Metaphor for Euphoria Kaye Miller
A wrist, a wren, a small knife Ellen Stone
latchkey fragments Frances Boyle
Swans at the Golf Club Ruth Daniell
Late August at the End of the World Bren Simmers
Say It Delicious Berry-Picking Laura Cesarco Eglin
Between Then and Then Millicent Borges Accardi
Boy With Orange
As he peels, the bright fruit
shifts sun to moon
which soon will wane
to a single wedge of light.
The boy, his own planet,
orbits the afternoon
in dizzy loops. Sweet citrus
of another boy’s kiss
stinging his lip.
Physics says a pull exists
between bodies:
sun and earth, earth and moon
or two boys close enough
the tides inside them rise
like a hand
to a fruit-bearing branch
like a tongue
to ripe translucence.
Though Newton’s law
doesn’t tell what happens after:
how a boy should live,
which world to circle.