spring 2014
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageThe Ford Takes Us to Wreck Beach Melissa Sawatsky
In the South Chilcotins The Shell Rob Taylor
We Are At Our Best When the Rain Ceases Falling on Hanover Richard-Yves Sitoski
I Invent a Character Before Lunch Steve Klepetar
The Last Year of His Life Barbara Brooks
No Small Effort Joseph Dorazio
Procne Carolyn Nakagawa
An Interview with a Caribou Richard Kelly Kemick
Ariadne: the untangler Fiona Mitchell
Poem for Jeff Poetry Shortage Kayla Czaga
Lost and Found Things I Noticed . . . Ricky Garni
The Day The Rain Stopped Jane Mellor
Procne
Life is a pile of small tragedies, she said,
hoping it would make a good Facebook status.
He looked sympathetic, but didn’t reach for his phone.
Do you think that’s how your sister felt?
Of course not. What happened to her. She
didn’t need to notice the rest of it.
He nodded. The recorder
picked it up.
But she’ll be remembered. Her music.
Yes, we’re producing an album (unfinished)
the way she would have wanted.
(I am, she thought.)
She would have wanted people to hear.
A message, he said. Would you call it inspirational?
What would you say to her, if she could hear?
I’d say, silent no more, sis. Everyone’s listening.