fall 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home Pagereflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Dark Night Full of Stars
After Trout in Siskiyou County
Bruce Robinson
Glory and the Neighbors
Untidy Ending
Lauren Camp
Invocation
I hold your ashes in my hand
Angeline Schellenberg
Inherited Water View
Looking at My Hand I See Her
Robert Carr
Ladybug, Ladybug
Cristalle Smith
Concurrent Incidents
I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her
Jaimie Gusman
The ice was coming nicely
Matthew Schmidt
Women of Trachis
Savannah Pulfer
Dear Jennifer,
Bridget Gage-Dixon
{steeple-chase}
{grave-tending}
{declining dessert}
David Morgan O'Connor
Now She's Going to Get It
Marjorie Silverman
Not really a father,
John Sibley Williams
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps
Janet Youngdahl
Visionary
Nebraska
Katie Berger
Powered By English
Y Pronounced EE
Meredith Quartermain
Wife Lessons
Jody Burke-Kaiser
{declining dessert}
At Donovan’s roadhouse we sit discussing
how success is measured by money whether
right or wrong is a fact. I want to disagree
but the Yorkshire pudding is to die for.
My father says I don’t want to get into that right now.
Isn’t survival the only ruler? I keep to myself.
The carrot grease is proof of God. Stout foam.
Over the next three hours we’ll drive in circles.
They’ll no longer give me insurance, he says.
I imagine informing a soldier of imminent amputation.
Pre-dawn regret, cap in hand, a cop approaching a mother’s door.
I am sorry to inform you last night there was a—
—recalculation and nothing more to be done.