fall 2015
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The Insidious Susurration
A Conversation
Marie-Andree Auclair
Yellow Flowers
The World Dream
Ann Filemyr
Why, And for What Purpose
Is There Something
Ace Bogess
In the Cyberspace Icicle Changming Yuan
a rose is a rose is a rose manhattan Nikki Reimer
Girl I
Girl II
Carolyn Supinka
what do you talk about
desire derives pleasure
aren't we missing every thing
gary lundy
The Stale Cold Smell of Morning
Angela Rebrec
Fault Vodka / Blame Juice Jamie Sharpe
A Monday The Devil Valentina Cano
(Ouverture) Garry Thomas Morse
the neighbors knew i divined water
Hell is hot
Allison DeLauer
Darkening Over Still Water Richard King Perkins II
Saturday Night
Charles Springer
QED A Moth In Rain Christopher Patton
revenge/reincarnation annie ross
Alcohol
Fast-slow Continuum
Peycho Kanev
A Fire Hydrant on Camino de la Amapola
Good to See You
Eleanor Kedney
Brains Lost to the Earth Melissa Nelson
The Story of Chitin Giri Zoe Dagneault
Word on the Street
Henry Rappaport
Can't Stomach Mitchell Grabois
The Day Everyone Realized Ron Riekki
The Insidious Susurration of Mongrels
Before I refined fear’s fetters
into protective hands
and memory tightened my leash
there was the hell breath
of mongrels dogging me
fangs, nails in my ankles
to the edge of the cliff
—do not soar—
to the borderline
—do not cross—
—stay put, look no farther—
the shouts, the whispers.
Beware, you don’t know
what comes next.
Our warnings—
You’ll get hurt, maimed, shamed.
Stay safe.
What if you fail, what if
and then what?
And we stick to you
since you feed us.
Hesitation is our nectar
and shivers of recoil our lifeblood.
That sense of futility?
Our daily meat.
We barked doubts
at you
till you
tighten your own tethers
because
there is always the chance
you’ll abandon us
to our sooty smoke
and taste a bright sky.