fall 2018
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageFriendly Nuts Carl Joesf Homolka
If You See Something, Say Something James Cagney
Phantom Courses Steven Ray Smith
Re: Wards of the Crown Jeremy Luke Hill
Marketplace Road Trip, 1985 Christopher Evans
Under the Arbor Heather Bourbeau
Tulips for Barbara Ann E. Michael
Victims of Captology Kyla Jamieson
forbidden music we should probably Conor Barnes
Poetic Outcrops poetic extracts: study #8 Sean Howard
George Bowering: Scatter-Gun Ken Cathers: the sum Craig Dworkin: The Déjà Vu of Déjà Dit Stephen Bett
Ode to the Cockroach my tiny minnow Cara Waterfall
For Murphy Glow Stick Fingers Jade Riordan
Ganapati Brume Yuugen Gulf Adam Day
The First Treatise The Second Treatise The Third Treatise Yara Farran
Nicer Drywall Amanda Proctor
Nicer
If you couldn’t see their bras, those girls would look nicer,
my mother said as I ate my Happy Meal in the mall food court.
Under their spaghetti tanks bright green and pink straps glowed like fire.
We’ll get you a strapless bra, so you don’t look like that,
my mother said as I ate my Happy Meal in the mall food court.
Unsure, and fingers slimy from fries, all I could hear was
We’ll get you a strapless bra, so you don’t look like that,
as I watched them drink strawberry milkshakes and pick food from their braces.
Unsure, and fingers slimy from fries, all I could hear was
my mother click her tongue, look down in outrage
as they drank strawberry milkshakes and picked food from their braces.
I zipped my fleece sweater towards my chin, hoping when I was their age
my mother wouldn’t click her tongue, look down in outrage,
if I defied leering gazes and fingers looped, snapping straps, slapping skin.
I zipped my fleece sweater towards my chin hoping when I was their age
my mother wouldn’t blame me because she thinks
I defied leering gazes and fingers looped, snapping straps, slapping skin,
and under my spaghetti tank bright green and pink straps glowed like fire.
Hoping my mother wouldn’t blame me because she thinks
if you couldn’t see their bras, those girls would look nicer.