fall 2016
Table of Contents
Return to Home PagePenmanship in Catholic School James Valvis
Tuesday Shared Accommodation Shaun Robinson
Notes From a Relationship with Hades (#1) Cindy Pereira
Livingston Cape Celyn Adam Day
10 words repeated Falcon oHara
A Little Soap Work Leena Niemela
Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers Stuart A. Paterson
Indian (4) Blood Quantum (8-9) Jordan Abel
With Their Flicker Fork Tongues, Snakes Taste the Bitter, Bright Air Blue Moon Enters the Street Arleen Paré
* (You test each hole for winter) * (Your shadow spreads across) * (Shielding your lips this stone) Simon Perchik
common time cloud variations Rachelle Pinnow
sometimes old name warning: leaf kotasek
12:33 AM What Colour is That? Mormei Zanke
Certain Things You Should Know About Rusty Kathleen M. Heideman
After Jim Morrison, May 1985 Manny Blacksher
That Night She Happened So Easy Nicomekl River Claire Matthews
Sigmund Freud, Action Figure Meghan Bell
Shared Accommodation
In the room for rent, the cord
of a phone charger leads the eye
out of the frame. Beds are seen only
through half-closed doorways
as if they were shameful. Stains suggest
indecent acts but might be shadows.
Small pets okay. Close to bus routes,
in the sense that everything
is close to bus routes. We’re all in
our late twenties—quiet, respectful,
employed. We enjoy activities
that can’t quite be seen at this
resolution. Ignore the photos
on the fridge—that’s who you’ll be
replacing. Temporary is okay, in the sense
that everything is temporary and okay.