fall 2016
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageTuesday Shared Accommodation Shaun Robinson
Penmanship in Catholic School James Valvis
Notes From a Relationship with Hades (#1) Cindy Pereira
* (You test each hole for winter) * (Your shadow spreads across) * (Shielding your lips this stone) Simon Perchik
Livingston Cape Celyn Adam Day
That Night She Happened So Easy Nicomekl River Claire Matthews
10 words repeated Falcon oHara
Certain Things You Should Know About Rusty Kathleen M. Heideman
Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers Stuart A. Paterson
12:33 AM What Colour is That? Mormei Zanke
After Jim Morrison, May 1985 Manny Blacksher
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
A Little Soap Work Leena Niemela
sometimes old name warning: leaf kotasek
common time cloud variations Rachelle Pinnow
Sigmund Freud, Action Figure Meghan Bell
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Shielding your lips this stone
knows all about winds
living in caves, began
as dust then kept in place
neither mornings or kisses
though there’s still the pieces
a grave here, here more and you
trying to remember how dirt
became your cheeks, caressed
as if rain is just another word
—your only sky left in the open
for its handfuls and hidden flowers
that have forgotten how to breathe
are devouring the mud, mountains
and this ritual water swept away.