fall 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageLadybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
Inherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
Not really a father, John Sibley Williams
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson
Concurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
Inherited Water View
I sit counting gold
from my father’s teeth.
What else am I to do?
He didn’t leave his glasses
or a pipe. How am I
to read or smoke
obituaries as I kindle
wood-stove coals?
Who decided winter
became an old man?
She flurries toward me
across the lake, scores ice
with blue finger fire.
There’s a hammer
in the garage, toolbox
he also left me. I will beat
his fillings into coin, engrave
words I didn’t speak,
sleep with his precious
metal under my pillow.