fall 2019
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Return to Home PageDear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
Not really a father, John Sibley Williams
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
Inherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
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
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
Nebraska
The coach/health teacher decorated third period
with slide show syphilis. You could tell
if a tornado or STD would kill you by its proximity
to the billboards of the glowing unborn fetus.
Choose life even if life
is a pasture and sky so unimpressed the moon
crashing into the sun would be bright
but probably nothing by June.
We disappeared willingly into cicada
invaded nights to rescue a cabbage patch kid
from a cornfield, each of us alone
with our own straight and measured row, leaves
slapping us in the face,
80 acres of mothers.