spring 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageMagnetic Resonance Lisa Mulrooney
Sophocles Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle Charles Kell
When the Time Comes Soothing Cameron Morse
orange socks there are bad men at the top Kate LaDew
Tensions Orange Bottles Sean Singer
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
Across This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
Terrigenous Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Catastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane Sabyasachi Nag
Against All Odds Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Six Thousand Dollars Cole Depuy
Soothing
He won’t let it go. Lili and I take turns going in
to soothe and sleep him. She bends
over the crib rail, patting his shoulder
until her back twinges. In the kitchenette, I heat
the water. The bottle warmer crackles.
Its orange satanic light gleams and blinks out
in the dark. Crook of my arm,
Theo writhes, he turns his head away. He writhes.
Head turned, he returns to the crib, reaches
for a whitewashed baluster and raises himself.
Again and again, he raises himself,
reaches and I brush his hand away. His hands
fly to the cage bars. I press them to his chest.
Loom above him in the dark, seething.