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
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
Women of Trachis
SOPHOCLES
takes a violent character and makes her
DUTIFUL, makes her
WIFE, makes her
DOMESTIC.
DEINARA,
i too want to be made DUTIFUL
made GOOD
made INNOCENT
STRIPPED of my family history
UPROOTED from the soils that raised me
called GIRL with my corpse lying in the marriage bed
bleeding out into a man’s sheets the way i am supposed to.
SOPHOCLES, tragedian,
can you wash my hands of poison, too?
show me how to be the bearer of someone else’s FAITH//
i mean FATE//
i mean can you show me how to be a WOMB//i mean WOMAN//
the way i am supposed to be.
DEINARA, amazon,
is it comforting to be reduced to a vessel?
to be poured out by stronger hands?