fall 2018
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageOde to the Cockroach my tiny minnow Cara Waterfall
Marketplace
Road Trip, 1985
Christopher Evans
Friendly Nuts
Carl Joesf Homolka
Re: Wards of the Crown
Jeremy Luke Hill
Dust
Brianne Battye
Poetic Outcrops poetic extracts: study #8 Sean Howard
Ganapati Brume Yuugen Gulf Adam Day
The First Treatise
The Second Treatise
The Third Treatise
Yara Farran
If You See Something, Say Something
James Cagney
George Bowering: Scatter-Gun
Ken Cathers: the sum
Craig Dworkin: The Déjà Vu of Déjà Dit
Stephen Bett
For Murphy Glow Stick Fingers Jade Riordan
forbidden music
we should probably
Conor Barnes
Tulips for Barbara
Ann E. Michael
Victims of Captology
Kyla Jamieson
Under the Arbor
Heather Bourbeau
Phantom
Courses
Steven Ray Smith
Dust
One porcelain cat begets more porcelain cats:
the latest a stray from the garage-sale free table,
bright eyes and stippled orange swirls.
How many cats say, at least she’s easy to buy for?
How many cats watch The Price is Right when she’s home sick?
Cats roost toe-to-tail, uncomplaining:
Better than being left in the rain.
Better than being wrapped in newsprint, stuffed in boxes, left in basement corners with hoola-hoops
and weather-bleached plastic reindeer.
Better than a landfill.
How long are decades in porcelain cat years?
When the cousins take the silver and electronics,
how many dust-glossed eyes will watch from corner shelves
and think, what now?