fall 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageVisionary Nebraska Katie Berger
{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
Not really a father, John Sibley Williams
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
Inherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
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
Who does she become
while you’re
behind her
behind
sliding fingers
each stair
each stare
gentle as an
uppercut.
**
Kitchen wallpaper.
Winter dawn.
**
You.
Hover.
Wait.
Want.
While your prey
pretends
you can’t
penetrate
her cereal box
barricade.