spring 2021
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arma virumque cano
Revelation on Baptist Hill
Libby Maxey
The Retrograde of a Frigid Planet
Self-Portrait as an Internal Dialogue on Rue St-Laurent, 2016
Lauren Turner
Ghazal With Malbec, No Cigarettes
Oxytocin Pandemic Love Poem
Lisa Richter
No Fixed Thing Space Follows Adam Day
The Year We Considered Foster Care
Sunni Brown Wilkinson
Drought
Flash Flood
Samantha Jones
The Guilt of Not Wanting
Ashley Prince
Self-Portrait as Used Condom Riding the Wonder Wheel
Melissa Eleftherion
The Deer Who Sneak Into Father's Butchering Shack at Night
L M Schmidt
Fits and Starts
Natasha Pepperl
White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum)
Coyote (Canis latrans)
Blue Morpho Butterfly (Morpho menelaus)
Jordan Mounteer
Flash Flood
They lie down, sluggish,
stems limp, draped over the lip,
purple and yellow pansies
in a terracotta pot.
I cross the cobbled yard,
the flesh of my bare feet
fills the gaps between
the rounded stones,
the weight of me pushing
down hard enough to
bruise the skin on my soles.
I was born in the house
of the water bearer.
A green can, spout clogged
contents sloshing
out of the openings,
I make it pour—
onto leaves baked yellow,
their edges curled by
July afternoons.
Water fills the pot
faster than it can drain.
Dirt bobs to the top
and spills over the side
plunges then meanders
in a muddy river twisting
across the wooden step—
floating flakes of mica flicker
under the three o’clock sun
before the stream carries them
over the edge and away.