spring 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageAcross This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
Six Thousand Dollars Cole Depuy
Sophocles Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle Charles Kell
orange socks there are bad men at the top Kate LaDew
When the Time Comes Soothing Cameron Morse
Terrigenous Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Against All Odds Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Magnetic Resonance Lisa Mulrooney
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
Catastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane Sabyasachi Nag
Tensions Orange Bottles Sean Singer
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.