fall 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageGlory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
Not really a father, John Sibley Williams
Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
Inherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
Concurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Wife Lessons
Do you remember learning to
make a fist? A real one
for hurling fury away from your body
from the shoulder like a fast ball
like you mean it. Your father
kneeling down, forcing your fingers
open church and steeple, digging
out your fat angry thumb,
nail bitten down, dirty.
Do you remember his knuckles
curling over yours, rolling you up
like a rose bud, like a valentine.
“Like a rock,” he said, folding
your thumb down to lock it.
Bone to meat. He said to always
remember, smacking down
the ridge of your violence, offering
his shoulder tensed for the blow.
“Bone to the meat. Fight like a lady.”