spring 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageAcross This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
Terrigenous Michelle Mitchell-Foust
orange socks there are bad men at the top Kate LaDew
Against All Odds Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
Catastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane Sabyasachi Nag
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
Six Thousand Dollars Cole Depuy
Tinnitus Emily Osborne
When the Time Comes Soothing Cameron Morse
Magnetic Resonance Lisa Mulrooney
Tensions Orange Bottles Sean Singer
Sophocles Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle Charles Kell
Tinnitus
We spawned and scuffed CDs, learned
audio empathy by grazing bystanders’
beats and FM frequencies. The aughts
brought hush-hush pods and buds,
closemouthed buses. Adults still agreed
we’d X-out decibels or acquire chronic
rings when no one’s dialling. Now we’ve
subbed tones for buzzes, apps plugged
to amp our phantom FOMO, jazzing
in arrhythmic pulses, like pacemakers
with tangled signals. Our days shuffle
with spectral pings when no one’s msg-ing.
We’re HSPs synced to faint text flutters,
voices breaking in percussive stutters.