spring 2018
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageFirst Ultrasound Second Ultrasound Stephanie Yorke
Trump As a Fire Without Light #665 Darren C. Demaree
Naming Cow Field Danielle Hanson
Grim Reaper in Therapy Brandon Marlon
Synonyms For Shelter Jill Talbot
Cracked Fabergé Egg Of Yes Lauren Turner
drowning man is not a superhero Aidan Chafe
Push Armamentarium Adrienne Gruber
He Ring Liar's Dice Confluence Derek Thomas Dew
Like André Derain David R. Dixon
an understanding Natasha Zarin
Dear Chepe Wilbur Melissa Weiss
The Path Discoverer Taylor Bond
Sea Room / The Adrift Exhibit / Queer Lynx Joseph Spece
Wet Parable Duck Carver Nathan Curnow
Ice Skating in Holland Carol Hamilton
Never the Desired Absence Nick Alti
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?