fall 2021
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On the Straightaway to the Rockies
Great Grandpa's Grain Elevator
A Nova Scotian Night Light
Ryan Smith
Say It Delicious
Berry-Picking
Laura Cesarco Eglin
Trust the Trees Wendy Wisner
The Graveyard Metaphor for Euphoria Kaye Miller
A wrist, a wren, a small knife
Ellen Stone
No One Knows How to Be Good
Emily Kedar
Boy With Orange
Phillip Watts Brown
Upon Watching the Rotation of the Earth
Charlotte Vermue Peters
Making the Most of Our Voices
Ken Victor
Between Then and Then
Millicent Borges Accardi
Late August at the End of the World
Bren Simmers
Swans at the Golf Club
Ruth Daniell
Somewhere within Kostanay, Kazakhstan Justin Timbol
i decay, bro
erica hiroko isomura
She's a Pretty Bird
Susan Zimmerman
What We Carry on a Pilgrimage
Granada, Take Three
Elena Johnson
latchkey fragments
Frances Boyle
When I See Lake Water
Kristin LaFollette
Trust the Trees
Erin walks through the woods, cramping and bleeding,
the baby unpeeling inside her.
Levana asks, Would you rather go home and rest?
Erin says, I’d rather feel this way in a forest than on my couch.
I’m home on the couch, the baby inside me
almost done, his legs crooked branches.
Who chooses the ones who live,
the ones who die? This morning on my walk,
a cool breeze, the dogwood fruits
ripe and fallen, splattered across the lawn,
the oak leaves already turning yellow and brown.
Eleven years ago today it was humid and sticky.
My husband walked over the bridge
while I sat on our stoop in Brooklyn,
the smoke from the buildings,
from the bodies, already wafting across the water.
Erin’s message to my baby is Trust the trees.
Interpret it however you want, she says.
I didn’t trust my husband would make it home
even as I saw his ashen body walking toward me.