fall 2020
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageHorses Innocence, Experience Ryan Eavis
Turf's Yield Derek Thomas Dew
My Father's House A.N. Higgins
The Narrow Road to Deep Marriage John Wall Barger
Netsuke When We Wake Together in a Lost City Iris Jamahl Dunkle
The Northern Flicker Identic Andrew Lafleche
verses upon the burning of our house Amanda Merpaw
What We Do When We Run Out of Elephants Shareen K. Murayama
One exists The embroidering light you learn J.I. Kleinberg
Neurons, Metal, Seed Reading Rocks and Mountains Susan Landgraf
Fragments of a World Dayna Patterson
In a Dark Field Jesse Sensibar
Bracketed A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare Danielle Badra
Bingo Card for the End Times Milla van der Have
Pattern Recognition Tolu Oloruntoba
from Vanishing Twin Syndrome: VII James Cagney
Routes on the Red Subarctic Archipelago Tongue Heather Simeney MacLeod
Okapi Wood Bison Kristi Maxwell
Turf’s Yield
Some balconies, all far too confident.
Blind to listen to nothing
as if a gigantic body of water
were right around the corner.
While we’re here we should let insects crawl on us:
Everything must do how distance
used to fold time when it was certain
a balcony would hold strong.
As quick as a puddle seems to a dime, you knew.
The bare trees gape slender like burnt nails
in the lesser errands of a cooked yacht
covered in insects.
As quick as a fist of moths.
Together we try to mimic the snore
of the oldest woman on the balconies
but can’t do the tan lines.
The greatest of all loves is a reluctance to sing.