fall 2017
Table of Contents
Return to Home PagePersuasion Freedom of Speech Emma Winsor Wood
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
Familiar Pianissimo Jennifer van Alstyne
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
Limits New York Brian Jerrold Koester
Somebody Else's Heroes Small Change Jocko Benoit
The Malice in My Footsteps Conyer Clayton
Unsolicited Relationship Advice Erin Kirsh
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
Judith Savanna Scott Leslie
Ode to a Desiccated Olive (Love is easier the headless way) James Cagney
* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
qualifications for your consideration Laura Yan
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
Judith
Let him see me and tremble.
I have streaked my brow and breast with oil.
Let him see me and collapse from the inside, the way a rotten fruit sinks into itself.
I have unbound my hair.
I have left my women and I am coming now through fog.
He will lay his terrible weapons down.
I have said my prayers.
He will lie beneath a purple cloth.
He will smile a captor’s smile as the blood pools hot velvet under my tongue.
Give me your shining fearlessness.
He will sink, shivering, into my pupils.
Give me his heedless sleep.
I carry the blessing of gasping souls, hearts cast in cold iron.
I carry his treasure home.