fall 2014
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Return to Home PageThe Old Guys at the Pantry, Breakfast, 5 A.M. Mark Jackley
In my version of heaven
Adrienne Drobnies
Never Quite Coming of Age in Pontiac Michigan
Glen Armstrong
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Jason Primm
When I Call My Mother Matthew Walsh
It's Usually Something Like This K.V. Skene
Prey Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois
White Goddess
Afterward
Nettie Farris
The Old Guys at the Pantry, Breakfast, 5 A.M.
San Mateo, CA
It started as a spot,
a small one,
on his leg.
Dennis,
with that van,
those crooked teeth,
that grin.
Nothing lasts,
not heat pumps,
toilets,
HVAC units,
fishing boats,
erections,
hot coffee
or first wives,
nothing but
the fog
rolling in
from Half Moon Bay
and the human
need
to burn it
off with words:
muffler,
toast,
butter,
rip-off,
mother,
love,
Colin Fucking Kaepernick,
marlin,
Monday,
hard.