fall 2021
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageSpatial Awareness Amy LeBlanc
She's a Pretty Bird Susan Zimmerman
Upon Watching the Rotation of the Earth Charlotte Vermue Peters
The Graveyard Metaphor for Euphoria Kaye Miller
Swans at the Golf Club Ruth Daniell
On the Straightaway to the Rockies Great Grandpa's Grain Elevator A Nova Scotian Night Light Ryan Smith
A wrist, a wren, a small knife Ellen Stone
What We Carry on a Pilgrimage Granada, Take Three Elena Johnson
i decay, bro erica hiroko isomura
latchkey fragments Frances Boyle
Somewhere within Kostanay, Kazakhstan Justin Timbol
Late August at the End of the World Bren Simmers
No One Knows How to Be Good Emily Kedar
Say It Delicious Berry-Picking Laura Cesarco Eglin
Between Then and Then Millicent Borges Accardi
When I See Lake Water Kristin LaFollette
Boy With Orange Phillip Watts Brown
Making the Most of Our Voices Ken Victor
Spatial Awareness
The kitchen window on the left
with the sink in front—
you could draw an outline in chalk
on the cushioned tile
(with: arms, pinky toes, appendix,
intestines, hemoglobin, ferritin)
but it may not help in the end.
Turn the room on its side
to shift your heart into a new
position one where blood
either pools or flows
like a river that runs both
ways. With the room in
view, move the chair a fraction
to the right. This will place you
closer to the sun, nearer
the airport,
closer to tenderness.
On second thought, draw
the body in chalk on the floor
but make it your own. Solid lines
for impenetrable membranes,
dashes for DNA, stars for
cytokines. A space
on the left for a heart that pumps
blood toward an airplane
moving overhead.