The Maynard

fall 2020

verses upon the burning of our house Amanda Merpaw

Netsuke When We Wake Together in a Lost City Iris Jamahl Dunkle

Routes on the Red Subarctic Archipelago Tongue Heather Simeney MacLeod

Why Not Karen Kevorkian

Okapi Wood Bison Kristi Maxwell

Turf's Yield Derek Thomas Dew

Harvest This Body Moni Brar

In the Be Tureeda Mikell

The Northern Flicker Identic Andrew Lafleche

My Father's House A.N. Higgins

Neurons, Metal, Seed Reading Rocks and Mountains Susan Landgraf

from Vanishing Twin Syndrome: VII James Cagney

Bracketed A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare Danielle Badra

One exists The embroidering light you learn J.I. Kleinberg

In a Dark Field Jesse Sensibar

Miracle Whip P.W. Bridgman

Bingo Card for the End Times Milla van der Have

midbrain Anna Leahy

The Narrow Road to Deep Marriage John Wall Barger

What We Do When We Run Out of Elephants Shareen K. Murayama

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verses upon the burning of our house

—after Anne Bradstreet

i.
no i didn’t look for sorrow
grown silent in the kitchen

ii.
i told you we dwelled
to one side of ourselves

iii.
do you know what it is
to be overcome

iv.
i took direction from
the crack in the tub

(you know the one)

v.
i revived the stopped press
i’ll mind my ghosts

vi.
yes
i lit the match

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