fall 2017
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageEcstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
qualifications
for your consideration
Laura Yan
Unsolicited Relationship Advice
Erin Kirsh
Persuasion
Freedom of Speech
Emma Winsor Wood
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
Somebody Else's Heroes
Small Change
Jocko Benoit
The Malice in My Footsteps
Conyer Clayton
Ode to a Desiccated Olive
(Love is easier the headless way)
James Cagney
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
Limits
New York
Brian Jerrold Koester
* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
Familiar
Pianissimo
Jennifer van Alstyne
The Travel Section
Mostly nowadays I flicker through quickly, noting
the blue glare of Aegean surf, safari trips
in Botswana, treks in Nepal, but then discard
their glossy come-ons in the recycling bin.
My legs give up on me, sheer will power’s never enough
to make it up Machu Pichu or reach Vladivostok
on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
In my mind a world traveller at fifteen,
I retrace forays to West End Embassies
to collect brochures for Cyprus, Connecticut
—impossible destinations. Though never one
for five-star beach resorts or luxury cruises
I am still game for anywhere unknown.
On that final repositioning
I’ll travel light, take my chances. I am on standby.