fall 2020
Table of Contents
Return to Home PagePattern Recognition Tolu Oloruntoba
Netsuke When We Wake Together in a Lost City Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Neurons, Metal, Seed Reading Rocks and Mountains Susan Landgraf
verses upon the burning of our house Amanda Merpaw
Routes on the Red Subarctic Archipelago Tongue Heather Simeney MacLeod
Okapi Wood Bison Kristi Maxwell
Bingo Card for the End Times Milla van der Have
Bracketed A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare Danielle Badra
One exists The embroidering light you learn J.I. Kleinberg
My Father's House A.N. Higgins
Horses Innocence, Experience Ryan Eavis
What We Do When We Run Out of Elephants Shareen K. Murayama
The Narrow Road to Deep Marriage John Wall Barger
In a Dark Field Jesse Sensibar
from Vanishing Twin Syndrome: VII James Cagney
Fragments of a World Dayna Patterson
The Northern Flicker Identic Andrew Lafleche
When We Wake Together in a Lost City
House erected on hammock land: sight it
between water’s sink and swell. What’s wild
islanded, twitching its fly-infested
flanks. History provides: handwritten maps
blue throated ghosts whose unearthed bodies
under deck’s teeth speak in low fog and wind.
Can’t know which way to paddle in a small
stuttering boat. But islands, sand barges
arrive. Rise. Disappear. With fickle tide—
shipwrecks undersurface.
The wild chestnut horses bend to muzzle
and feed on what the sea has left them: knots
we can never untie. An obstinate
distance we learn to map inside ourselves.