spring 2017
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from Glossary of Musical Terms rob mclennan
Dear Miss Parker
Dear Mama
Chelene Knight
The Lady or the Tiger? Michelle Brooks
We Could Have Called Him Joe, We Didn't
Juliane Okot Bitek
A Coke and a KitKat
Spenser Smith
Singing in Dark Times
Bhaswati Ghosh
Romeo, Romeo, WTF?
P.C. Vandall
Prayer For Our Past Selves
Esther McPhee
from Electric Garden
Amanda Earl
Aztlan Travels Emiliano Sepulveda
First Loves in Brevoort Park
Body Analysis
Erin Hiebert
Red Sarongs
Clementine
Chelsea Comeau
Inside My House
Gleaning Stones
Onjana Yawnghwe
Constantly Looking, Admitting Nothing
Paul Douglas McNeill II
from Glossary of Musical Terms
Fugue
Outlet, outland. Helpful, nerves. She smiles, bottomless. Deep autumn, leaves. Unversed. A capsized heat. Toddlered. Push ligature, libretto. Optic tones. I position, overturned. Burnished, pre-syntactic. Measured, drill. Particular, of chaos.
A joyous well. We can’t sense the boundary.
Key of D
Symphonic end, an explanation. Slide. Rain barrel, minutes without notice. Gutter margins, sofa. Category: peopled. Peanut, recalls. They recollect. Slippery. A page count, temporary. Dwarfed. Widows, orphans grieve.
A lengthy interval. A happy thinking lullaby.
The Key of G, Major
Simplicity, belongs. Lift arms. Immediate, unspooled. The water levels. Speculations fall, and rise. Compact. A magazine believes. Unbound. What gradient, the house. Lift arms. Windows, several moments. Incantatory. Taut. Dismantled. Lift arms. Wheels of steady rain, soft mud. Modulation, stride. Consumed, a peck of dirt. A fingerprint. Third person, speaks. Lift arms. Lift arms.