spring 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageSophocles Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle Charles Kell
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
When the Time Comes Soothing Cameron Morse
Catastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane Sabyasachi Nag
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
Six Thousand Dollars Cole Depuy
Tensions Orange Bottles Sean Singer
Terrigenous Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Across This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
orange socks there are bad men at the top Kate LaDew
Magnetic Resonance Lisa Mulrooney
Tinnitus Emily Osborne
Against All Odds Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Tinnitus
We spawned and scuffed CDs, learned
audio empathy by grazing bystanders’
beats and FM frequencies. The aughts
brought hush-hush pods and buds,
closemouthed buses. Adults still agreed
we’d X-out decibels or acquire chronic
rings when no one’s dialling. Now we’ve
subbed tones for buzzes, apps plugged
to amp our phantom FOMO, jazzing
in arrhythmic pulses, like pacemakers
with tangled signals. Our days shuffle
with spectral pings when no one’s msg-ing.
We’re HSPs synced to faint text flutters,
voices breaking in percussive stutters.