fall 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageWife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
Concurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
Not really a father, John Sibley Williams
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Inherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
Now She’s Going to Get It
Who does she become
while you’re
behind her
behind
sliding fingers
each stair
each stare
gentle as an
uppercut.
**
Kitchen wallpaper.
Winter dawn.
**
You.
Hover.
Wait.
Want.
While your prey
pretends
you can’t
penetrate
her cereal box
barricade.