fall 2019
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Return to Home Page{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
Inherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
Not really a father, John Sibley Williams
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
Concurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
I hold your ashes in my hand
or I believe I do—
hidden as they are
inside a heart-shaped locket.
Heavy as a finger across my palm.
You speak loud as lavender.
I am babysitting the betta fish
your husband bought after you died—
in blue because you love it.
Before I sleep, I watch
its tail. The flick, a heartbeat.
Whenever I leave my driveway
brake lights stare back at me
from your window.