spring 2021
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageWhite Rhino (Ceratotherium simum) Coyote (Canis latrans) Blue Morpho Butterfly (Morpho menelaus) Jordan Mounteer
The Retrograde of a Frigid Planet Self-Portrait as an Internal Dialogue on Rue St-Laurent, 2016 Lauren Turner
Fits and Starts Natasha Pepperl
No Fixed Thing Space Follows Adam Day
The Guilt of Not Wanting Ashley Prince
Ghazal With Malbec, No Cigarettes Oxytocin Pandemic Love Poem Lisa Richter
Self-Portrait as Used Condom Riding the Wonder Wheel Melissa Eleftherion
Drought Flash Flood Samantha Jones
The Deer Who Sneak Into Father's Butchering Shack at Night L M Schmidt
arma virumque cano Revelation on Baptist Hill Libby Maxey
The Year We Considered Foster Care Sunni Brown Wilkinson
The Guilt of Not Wanting
The absence of blood stains
left each trip to the toilet
a death sentence.
Reckless nights captured
in a bloating, festering uterus.
Nothing felt right that summer.
The taunting of mother nature,
ragged, brittle poplars
sucked barren from the heat.
Harvests stillborn, grass
crunchy, yellow, soil leeching
onto any speck of water.
The heat so thick, most love
went unconsummated. Bodies
too sticky to bother.
Even the lilacs, long a source
of calm, didn’t visit.
A clear sign that the body
was no longer hers.