fall 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageNot really a father, John Sibley Williams
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Inherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Concurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman
Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps
In the outermost cell of her nest
the female bone-house wasp
stacks dead ants
to hide the odour of her young
The layers woven between the breast
and the seeking mouth
In the outermost wasp, the female cell
nests the ant bone-house
to stack the dead, an odour
her young hide
I wrap you tightly against my skin
In the outermost female
dead young stack their cells.
bone-house ants hide
the wasp-odour of her nest
Your breath the quiet scent of milk
In the outermost stack of the dead
females hide the bone-house.
young wasp cells carry the
odour of ant’s nests
The swirling impossible separation
of my arm from its carry
In the outermost cell of her nest
the female bone-house wasp
stacks dead ants
to hide the odour of her young