fall 2018
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageIf You See Something, Say Something James Cagney
Phantom Courses Steven Ray Smith
Friendly Nuts Carl Joesf Homolka
The First Treatise The Second Treatise The Third Treatise Yara Farran
Ganapati Brume Yuugen Gulf Adam Day
Marketplace Road Trip, 1985 Christopher Evans
Re: Wards of the Crown Jeremy Luke Hill
Poetic Outcrops poetic extracts: study #8 Sean Howard
Ode to the Cockroach my tiny minnow Cara Waterfall
George Bowering: Scatter-Gun Ken Cathers: the sum Craig Dworkin: The Déjà Vu of Déjà Dit Stephen Bett
Victims of Captology Kyla Jamieson
forbidden music we should probably Conor Barnes
Tulips for Barbara Ann E. Michael
For Murphy Glow Stick Fingers Jade Riordan
Under the Arbor Heather Bourbeau
Marketplace
and another thing the realtor says
is Listen, kids, I’ve been around the block
for a cool decade. Think I’m bullshitting
you? I practically invented Selfie-
with-Misspelled-Name-on-Starbucks-Cup
and our eyes flit to the desk where a marble
paperweight in the shape of an inukshuk
throws shade across his nameplate
You and I, we’ve always been suckers
for stacked rocks and authority figures
with sun-damaged hair, so we shrink back
and whisper We don’t know where
we belong dropping hands below the city’s
sight to make fishhooks of our pinkies
He laughs You think someone gave me
a trout? I had to learn to and makes a casting motion,
silver watch leaping at his wrist and we know
this is where home is, shy of the surface, hooked
always and thrashing beneath.