fall 2019
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Return to Home PageInherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
Clay Man Susana H. Case
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
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
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
Concurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
Not really a father, John Sibley Williams
Clay Man
I prefer a different ending to
sleeping with a baseball bat
in case he returns with a weapon
He wends his way back
through the woods more frequently now
Last time he talked too much about guns
and my rental cabin’s not near anything
except him
Or so he pointed out His whiskers
were grizzled A bit of dribble on his shirt
Clean fingernails Not an outdoorsman
I made note of features for a police Identi-Kit
I remember the day he showed up barefoot
bleeding covered in clay
It seems if you get them to talk
they’re only too happy not to shoot you
Lost hours serving tea talking
talking about the weather He pointed out
he patched the window he broke to get in
and besides I never explicitly said no—