fall 2017
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageEcstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
Somebody Else's Heroes Small Change Jocko Benoit
qualifications for your consideration Laura Yan
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
Familiar Pianissimo Jennifer van Alstyne
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
The Malice in My Footsteps Conyer Clayton
Persuasion Freedom of Speech Emma Winsor Wood
Unsolicited Relationship Advice Erin Kirsh
* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
Ode to a Desiccated Olive (Love is easier the headless way) James Cagney
Limits New York Brian Jerrold Koester
Limits
Kurt wasn’t two yet
and I wasn’t six
when Mom put him
in a drycleaner’s plastic bag
and left him on the floor.
The boy who never sat still
sat still, smiling.
I’m no hero, but
I crawled in
and we sat together
while I kept the bag open.
Mom came roaring at us,
but blood wouldn’t have looked
like an accident.