spring 2018
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Never the Desired Absence
Nick Alti
Sea Room / The Adrift
Exhibit / Queer
Lynx
Joseph Spece
an understanding
Natasha Zarin
drowning man is not a superhero
Aidan Chafe
First Ultrasound
Second Ultrasound
Stephanie Yorke
Cracked Fabergé Egg Of Yes
Lauren Turner
Dear Chepe
Wilbur
Melissa Weiss
Grim Reaper in Therapy
Brandon Marlon
Trump As a Fire Without Light #665
Darren C. Demaree
Synonyms For Shelter
Jill Talbot
Wet Parable
Duck
Carver
Nathan Curnow
He Ring Liar's Dice Confluence Derek Thomas Dew
The Path Discoverer
Taylor Bond
Push
Armamentarium
Adrienne Gruber
Like André Derain
David R. Dixon
Ice Skating in Holland Carol Hamilton
Naming
Cow Field
Danielle Hanson
Push
Everything is found in before
and after it and she
her grandmother’s face
cheeks plump nests
for eggs smooth stones
everything is found in
her mouth
curved shell screams
sticky clam-scented curls
everything is found
swallows of sobs
chin creases fat rolls
speechlessness
everything is pushed
the planet through
rigid pelvis
everything explodes
pressure of being
galaxy shifts
time pirouettes
our next one will
be adopted
eight cheerleaders
pom-poms high in the air
fingers tickle cauliflower bulge
of scalp shear glass-cutting
clit-splitting of her crown
push with the body
back with your hands
the planet erupts
into palms her body
hers already
frog-legged
hair slicked in waves
against a funneled head
daughter.
Everything is found
in new light. Every small
thing new.