fall 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageNot really a father, John Sibley Williams
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
Concurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
Inherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
Now She’s Going to Get It
Who does she become
while you’re
behind her
behind
sliding fingers
each stair
each stare
gentle as an
uppercut.
**
Kitchen wallpaper.
Winter dawn.
**
You.
Hover.
Wait.
Want.
While your prey
pretends
you can’t
penetrate
her cereal box
barricade.