spring 2018
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Trump As a Fire Without Light #665
Darren C. Demaree
Naming
Cow Field
Danielle Hanson
Grim Reaper in Therapy
Brandon Marlon
First Ultrasound
Second Ultrasound
Stephanie Yorke
drowning man is not a superhero
Aidan Chafe
Wet Parable
Duck
Carver
Nathan Curnow
an understanding
Natasha Zarin
Push
Armamentarium
Adrienne Gruber
Cracked Fabergé Egg Of Yes
Lauren Turner
He Ring Liar's Dice Confluence Derek Thomas Dew
Never the Desired Absence
Nick Alti
The Path Discoverer
Taylor Bond
Dear Chepe
Wilbur
Melissa Weiss
Ice Skating in Holland Carol Hamilton
Sea Room / The Adrift
Exhibit / Queer
Lynx
Joseph Spece
Like André Derain
David R. Dixon
Synonyms For Shelter
Jill Talbot
Ice Skating in Holland
I never did, though I loved
Bruges, Delft, Amsterdam,
but I Bruehled on ice there then
and again later as I skated,
a child sometimes balanced
on my hip, skimming ponds in Ohio
and Upstate New York, West Virginia.
In Holland, I never browned
and blacked, with white and gray
dabbed with reds, but I rollicked
among the painted crowds
of Dutchmen, so disorderly
and joyous after living
in John Knoxian order.
In Scotland, even the dogs
moved as expected,
strangely subdued.
How much of my cheery past,
lived then and dancing now,
stepped right out of reproductions
or off of museum walls?