fall 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageCherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps
Janet Youngdahl
Powered By English
Y Pronounced EE
Meredith Quartermain
Ladybug, Ladybug
Cristalle Smith
Inherited Water View
Looking at My Hand I See Her
Robert Carr
Dear Jennifer,
Bridget Gage-Dixon
Visionary
Nebraska
Katie Berger
The ice was coming nicely
Matthew Schmidt
Dark Night Full of Stars
After Trout in Siskiyou County
Bruce Robinson
{steeple-chase}
{grave-tending}
{declining dessert}
David Morgan O'Connor
Concurrent Incidents
I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her
Jaimie Gusman
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Women of Trachis
Savannah Pulfer
Now She's Going to Get It
Marjorie Silverman
Glory and the Neighbors
Untidy Ending
Lauren Camp
Wife Lessons
Jody Burke-Kaiser
Not really a father,
John Sibley Williams
Invocation
I hold your ashes in my hand
Angeline Schellenberg
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.