fall 2017
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageThe Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
qualifications
for your consideration
Laura Yan
Familiar
Pianissimo
Jennifer van Alstyne
Ode to a Desiccated Olive
(Love is easier the headless way)
James Cagney
The Malice in My Footsteps
Conyer Clayton
Persuasion
Freedom of Speech
Emma Winsor Wood
* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
Limits
New York
Brian Jerrold Koester
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Unsolicited Relationship Advice
Erin Kirsh
Somebody Else's Heroes
Small Change
Jocko Benoit
Hyoid
Elana Wolff
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
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.