fall 2020
Table of Contents
Return to Home Pageverses upon the burning of our house Amanda Merpaw
The Northern Flicker Identic Andrew Lafleche
Fragments of a World Dayna Patterson
One exists The embroidering light you learn J.I. Kleinberg
Okapi Wood Bison Kristi Maxwell
Horses Innocence, Experience Ryan Eavis
In a Dark Field Jesse Sensibar
Routes on the Red Subarctic Archipelago Tongue Heather Simeney MacLeod
Bingo Card for the End Times Milla van der Have
from Vanishing Twin Syndrome: VII James Cagney
Bracketed A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare Danielle Badra
The Narrow Road to Deep Marriage John Wall Barger
What We Do When We Run Out of Elephants Shareen K. Murayama
My Father's House A.N. Higgins
Pattern Recognition Tolu Oloruntoba
Neurons, Metal, Seed Reading Rocks and Mountains Susan Landgraf
Netsuke When We Wake Together in a Lost City Iris Jamahl Dunkle
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.