fall 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageConcurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman
Not really a father, John Sibley Williams
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
Inherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson
The ice was coming nicely
along in the cube trays.
Outside, in the pond, an otter
motors a flock-of-geese V.
Its soggy fur clear in my binocs.
How was your day, darling?
must be said in many rooms
as the doors open and shut
on another day apart.
Where is the green bean casserole
recipe? I said to my wife.
She didn’t answer. I live
on a trapeze above dirt, tights on,
swinging in thick silence.
A book open on the kitchen
counter by Virgil. Butter
shacked up in a dish. Some
outlets, daring me
to use them. Whatever
happened to mute us
began as water
where everything is said to begin
and must be true. You don’t
freeze or drown on separate earth.