spring 2016
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageI Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Christopher Evans
All Bones Hunger a Home Algonquin Ashley-Elizabeth Best
Ottawa Hospital: Eating Disorder Ward Fan Palms Mallory Tater
A conversation with a massage therapist Francine Cunningham
Year In Review Starling Advice Amie Whittemore
Unavailable On Buying a Second Pair of Birkenstocks Pamela Mosher
There's So Much to Tell You On Some Good Days Alison Braid
air mattress the clinic printed off a calendar B.J. Best
Starling Advice
Embrace your dark multitudes.
Launch fearlessly.
Imitate the brashest sounds you know—car alarm,
orgasmic woman. Open your beak.
Court aggressively.
Praise Shakespeare for including you,
praise unexpected migration.
Ash thrown from sunset’s hearth,
perch and writhe in summer’s yawp.
Love your lack of enemies.
Put on your oil raincoats, clang your brave chants.
Eat plum, grub, curbside garbage.
Leave no tree unshaken.
Delight. When cursed, mimic.
When threatened, strike.
Then fling your constellations
into twilight’s robes, foil those wingless dopes
who would imprint you with longing, its treasons.