fall 2020
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In a Dark Field
Jesse Sensibar
from Vanishing Twin Syndrome: VII
James Cagney
The Northern Flicker
Identic
Andrew Lafleche
Fragments of a World
Dayna Patterson
One exists
The embroidering light
you learn
J.I. Kleinberg
Pattern Recognition
Tolu Oloruntoba
My Father's House
A.N. Higgins
Bracketed
A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare
Danielle Badra
Bingo Card for the End Times
Milla van der Have
Okapi Wood Bison Kristi Maxwell
Horses Innocence, Experience
Ryan Eavis
The Narrow Road to Deep Marriage
John Wall Barger
What We Do When We Run Out of Elephants
Shareen K. Murayama
verses upon the burning of our house
Amanda Merpaw
Neurons, Metal, Seed
Reading Rocks and Mountains
Susan Landgraf
Netsuke
When We Wake Together in a Lost City
Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Routes on the Red Subarctic Archipelago Tongue Heather Simeney MacLeod
Reading Rocks and Mountains
Her father’s ranch hand had learned
the lay of the land, come to know the mountains,
their shadow patterns and shifts.
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Since birth she’d listened to the mountains,
their rocks, moss and elk, cougar, and raven
conversations. She’d learned to translate.
She’d learned by digging through books,
studying scat and wind fall. She’d marked
the trails and lairs and their animal habits.
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She knows what the risks are—
early season snowstorms or rock fall.
She knows what the ranch hand wants.
She learned early how to ride and shoot.
She learned to be quiet.
She knows what to listen for.