spring 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageWhen the Time Comes Soothing Cameron Morse
Six Thousand Dollars Cole Depuy
Tensions Orange Bottles Sean Singer
Catastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane Sabyasachi Nag
Against All Odds Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Across This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
Terrigenous Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
Magnetic Resonance Lisa Mulrooney
Sophocles Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle Charles Kell
orange socks there are bad men at the top Kate LaDew
When the Time Comes
Triage late
the night her water breaks,
a fetal heart monitor
seismographs
our son’s heartrate.
The printer pushes out
a page so long it folds in
on itself, so long
it flops onto the floor,
heartbeat-scarred,
jagged as a fissure
splitting open some parking lot
in Tōhoku. Early morning
in the labor room
we hear the grind and whirr
of construction resume
on the other side of the wall.
Out the window
a crane pirouettes
to the thunderclap of dump trucks.