fall 2015
Table of Contents
Return to Home Pagerevenge/reincarnation annie ross
Why, And for What Purpose
Is There Something
Ace Bogess
The Story of Chitin Giri Zoe Dagneault
QED A Moth In Rain Christopher Patton
Darkening Over Still Water Richard King Perkins II
Can't Stomach Mitchell Grabois
A Monday The Devil Valentina Cano
Fault Vodka / Blame Juice Jamie Sharpe
(Ouverture) Garry Thomas Morse
Saturday Night
Charles Springer
the neighbors knew i divined water
Hell is hot
Allison DeLauer
In the Cyberspace Icicle Changming Yuan
The Insidious Susurration
A Conversation
Marie-Andree Auclair
Word on the Street
Henry Rappaport
what do you talk about
desire derives pleasure
aren't we missing every thing
gary lundy
Girl I
Girl II
Carolyn Supinka
a rose is a rose is a rose manhattan Nikki Reimer
Yellow Flowers
The World Dream
Ann Filemyr
A Fire Hydrant on Camino de la Amapola
Good to See You
Eleanor Kedney
The Stale Cold Smell of Morning
Angela Rebrec
Brains Lost to the Earth Melissa Nelson
Alcohol
Fast-slow Continuum
Peycho Kanev
The Day Everyone Realized Ron Riekki
Girl I
She is this drink I stir. The sweep
of cut straws over my surface, cleaning
me abrasively. I want to say, I value you.
With you it’s like being alone. The best
possible compliment. They don’t come easy,
these friends. These girls talk like it’s
the fourth of July, and we love our country.
Nation building is a sport to her. We pieced together
our own island ages ago. I swim around it in circles.
She inhabits it, and calls me to shore with conch shells
and smoke signals. I see that cloud of black air in my
beach blue sky, that ball of red wool in my pocket,
a reverse unraveling. It’s this love, a word
without the prickles of sex. This want is body-less.
I over-use that word with her. I throw it on the ground
and run over it, I want to pave the streets with it
and stomp until it’s pressed into our landscape,
until it’s breathless and casual as cement.