fall 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageDark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Inherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
Concurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
Not really a father, John Sibley Williams
{declining dessert}
At Donovan’s roadhouse we sit discussing
how success is measured by money whether
right or wrong is a fact. I want to disagree
but the Yorkshire pudding is to die for.
My father says I don’t want to get into that right now.
Isn’t survival the only ruler? I keep to myself.
The carrot grease is proof of God. Stout foam.
Over the next three hours we’ll drive in circles.
They’ll no longer give me insurance, he says.
I imagine informing a soldier of imminent amputation.
Pre-dawn regret, cap in hand, a cop approaching a mother’s door.
I am sorry to inform you last night there was a—
—recalculation and nothing more to be done.