fall 2017
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageRebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
Limits New York Brian Jerrold Koester
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
Ode to a Desiccated Olive (Love is easier the headless way) James Cagney
Unsolicited Relationship Advice Erin Kirsh
The Malice in My Footsteps Conyer Clayton
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Persuasion Freedom of Speech Emma Winsor Wood
Somebody Else's Heroes Small Change Jocko Benoit
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
Familiar Pianissimo Jennifer van Alstyne
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
qualifications for your consideration Laura Yan
Hyoid Elana Wolff
Hyoid
A clutch of shrubs and stand of trees on the
knoll on the way to the grave. The boy & girl
entrusted to us the moment we brought them in.
We get our moral feeling first from colour.
Let it not be read I haven’t loved enough,
I’m trying. Coreopsis, Say what you will,
your other side is violet. This, the law of
complements that binds us like a thigh.
I stand alone, lay stones on the gravestone,
clover, and a note—one can stun from nothing,
make the sun appear impromptu. We do this
with the word. & if ink is insufficient,
there is speech to turn to, and birds.
A chaffinch crosses the path and turns to crow.
Black wings flapping echo in my hyoid: bone
at the base of the tongue, unlike any other:
little wish that breaks away from pre-articulation.
It’s the story of the hyoid to enable complex
human speech, its deft manipulations.
You touched my horseshoe-U by stealth
and bent the lesser horns.