fall 2015
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageSaturday Night Charles Springer
The Story of Chitin Giri Zoe Dagneault
the neighbors knew i divined water Hell is hot Allison DeLauer
(Ouverture) Garry Thomas Morse
The Day Everyone Realized Ron Riekki
The Stale Cold Smell of Morning Angela Rebrec
Can't Stomach Mitchell Grabois
Alcohol Fast-slow Continuum Peycho Kanev
revenge/reincarnation annie ross
The Insidious Susurration A Conversation Marie-Andree Auclair
Brains Lost to the Earth Melissa Nelson
Word on the Street Henry Rappaport
A Monday The Devil Valentina Cano
Fault Vodka / Blame Juice Jamie Sharpe
In the Cyberspace Icicle Changming Yuan
QED A Moth In Rain Christopher Patton
Darkening Over Still Water Richard King Perkins II
what do you talk about desire derives pleasure aren't we missing every thing gary lundy
Girl I Girl II Carolyn Supinka
Why, And for What Purpose Is There Something Ace Bogess
Yellow Flowers The World Dream Ann Filemyr
A Fire Hydrant on Camino de la Amapola Good to See You Eleanor Kedney
a rose is a rose is a rose manhattan Nikki Reimer
Girl II
She is that drink I stir. That field we pass
on the way home every night. It is a clearing
rimmed with white birches, stark lines of tree bodies
like steam escaping from cracks in the soft earth.
She once said she saw a phoenix rise from that clearing,
and even though she was making it up we could see it too.
Think of little girls picturing a phoenix.
Who told us about these birds on fire?
I didn’t picture it on fire, but glad.
Whoever gets to burn like that must be glad,
rising like clockwork. That field.
I think it would be cool. I think it would be soft as blue velvet,
impervious to wrinkles and time.
The fabric of that field stretches in my mind,
offers its body as a blanket for me to press my cheek to.
It’s a place I’ve never been, but I want to return to, again and again,
until I have a reason to stop, and let myself in.