spring 2020
Table of Contents
Return to Home Pageblue light Stephanie Yue Duhem
Humid Weather Me of Me Catherine Strisik
Breathturning Chris Checkwitch
Monologue of a Fly's Shadow Monologue of a Cow's Shadow Danielle Hanson
A Twohanded Cut The Tornado Cut The Pandora Cut Torben Robertson
she is in the kitchen now Nora Pace
Communion of Tongues Hege A. Jakobsen Lepri
Tchaikovsky, Age 52, Finds His Inspiration John Barton
Stem of Old French Creistre, To Grow Of Stinging Nettle Page Hill Starzinger
Supermarket Lobsters Robbie Gamble
Six Gray Moons on a Screen Eleanor Kedney
Like the best myths Medusozoa Sarah Lyons-Lin
Another Vision Patricia Nelson
Moon Turned Her Half Face From Me Lawrence Feuchtwanger
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Nachos Jessica Covil
There Is No Substitute for Good Planning Erin Kirsh
sold separately Lesley Battler
A Symptom of Resignation The Gee Whiz Element of Tropical Storms and Symphonies Jen Karetnick
Family Dinner In Which I Re-name My Father Poem Containing Only Words I Hate griffin epstein
Family Dinner
We watch TV
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter
and the endless debate about eggs
I write a letter to the woman on screen, asking
what do you have for breakfast? and
how long can you grow your hair?
Sometimes
we are permitted to eat:
white chocolate (2 squares)
Elmer’s glue (1 capful)
frozen fish fingers (3 on a paper towel)
Eventually they will notice our bodies
(which have started to glow at night)
We won’t have to crawl beneath the window
to hide from the binocular creep across the street
Someday
we will have new shoes
they will be heavy
with bones inside
and we will walk
For now, we hunger
turn the TV up louder
pretend:
See that lady? She is beautiful.
You know, it’s okay to be beautiful but
you do not have to be