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