spring 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageCatastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane Sabyasachi Nag
Tensions Orange Bottles Sean Singer
Six Thousand Dollars Cole Depuy
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
Terrigenous Michelle Mitchell-Foust
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
orange socks there are bad men at the top Kate LaDew
Magnetic Resonance Lisa Mulrooney
Across This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
Sophocles Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle Charles Kell
When the Time Comes Soothing Cameron Morse
Against All Odds Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Tensions
Today in the taxi when a wild HVAC truck cut me off, I thought of Mingus and how he managed his rising anger.
Everyone knows he put a shotgun hole in his ceiling when he was being evicted, and that he grabbed a fire axe to kill Juan Tizol who chased him down with a sharpened “Cuban frog sticker,” but what about in his private moments when he was asleep, or in the shower?
What remains is the timber of his bass melting in the black firmament of a fluid tunnel, and the black rose looking down on the mass of the earth.