spring 2016
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageA conversation with a massage therapist Francine Cunningham
I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Christopher Evans
All Bones Hunger a Home Algonquin Ashley-Elizabeth Best
Year In Review Starling Advice Amie Whittemore
air mattress the clinic printed off a calendar B.J. Best
Ottawa Hospital: Eating Disorder Ward Fan Palms Mallory Tater
Unavailable On Buying a Second Pair of Birkenstocks Pamela Mosher
There's So Much to Tell You On Some Good Days Alison Braid
There’s So Much to Tell You
How my fist won’t fit in my mouth,
that I sit still trying to unlearn my reflection,
this body like the taut skin of a balloon.
Evenings hang heavy from their hooks.
I sit still trying to unlearn my reflection.
What more can follow? Evenings hang
heavy from their hooks. Yesterday,
I overheard one gardener ask the other:
what more can follow? It was spring
and he was sunk in tulips.
I overheard one gardener tell the other:
I feel like that invisible man stoned in the snow.
It was spring and he was sunk in tulips.
I think I wanted to love him. I feel
like that invisible man stoned in the snow.
His knees were soiled full moons when he stood.
I think I wanted to love him.
There’s so much to tell you. His knees
were soiled full moons when he stood. My hands
in their old way, hold nothing near.