spring 2019
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Tensions
Orange Bottles
Sean Singer
Six Thousand Dollars
Cole Depuy
Terrigenous
Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
Sophocles
Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle
Charles Kell
orange socks
there are bad men at the top
Kate LaDew
Magnetic Resonance
Lisa Mulrooney
When the Time Comes
Soothing
Cameron Morse
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
orange socks
a man raped, murdered you, then careened you down an overpass
another man claimed he did it, gave you a name
joanie judy something (there are so many girls in this world)
while the paper printed orange socks
the only identifier
the only manmade thing on your naked body
except for that scar under your chin
the bruises up and down
the blood on your legs, in your eyes
except for whoever got your mother pregnant
except for everyone who brought you to that overpass
where a man reached inside you, took your breath and crashed you
except for that Joanie-Judy-Orange Socks
and there but for the grace of god go all the girls in the world
and for all the love he deigns to give us
he might as well have kept the man and thrown the rib away