fall 2017
Table of Contents
Return to Home PagePamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
Persuasion Freedom of Speech Emma Winsor Wood
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Somebody Else's Heroes Small Change Jocko Benoit
Limits New York Brian Jerrold Koester
Unsolicited Relationship Advice Erin Kirsh
Familiar Pianissimo Jennifer van Alstyne
Midwinter Natalie Crick
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
Ode to a Desiccated Olive (Love is easier the headless way) James Cagney
The Malice in My Footsteps Conyer Clayton
qualifications for your consideration Laura Yan
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
Midwinter
Trees appear as brides,
Their snow dance wounding
The cosmos.
I am numb to you.
No one sees the snowdrops budding,
A bright field of knives.
If I turn away, they grow
In lines of white flame and
As darkness falls,
A kingdom of black blossoms
Deep as a moaning mouth.