fall 2017
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageStereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Persuasion
Freedom of Speech
Emma Winsor Wood
Somebody Else's Heroes
Small Change
Jocko Benoit
Ode to a Desiccated Olive
(Love is easier the headless way)
James Cagney
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
Unsolicited Relationship Advice
Erin Kirsh
The Malice in My Footsteps
Conyer Clayton
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
Limits
New York
Brian Jerrold Koester
qualifications
for your consideration
Laura Yan
Familiar
Pianissimo
Jennifer van Alstyne
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather
I tried to work the belt he choked me with
into the shape of a life. But my wisdom
teeth crowned and told me to follow my
bleeding. I fingered all the stains I’ve left
on lovers’ sheets and thought logic is useless
in love (a true enough balm) until I spit up
the stones that smoothed my stomach.
They told me to stare bare-faced into my
mother’s favourite flower. Deep in
the yellow of a pansy she gave me
the advice she always does, “I don’t
know, do what you like.” And then sprinkled
cinnamon sugar on toast and said,
“Sweets will suture each mauled part.”