fall 2016
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageSigmund Freud, Action Figure Meghan Bell
A Little Soap Work
Leena Niemela
* (You test each hole for winter) * (Your shadow spreads across) * (Shielding your lips this stone) Simon Perchik
After Jim Morrison, May 1985
Manny Blacksher
Certain Things You Should Know About Rusty
Kathleen M. Heideman
Penmanship in Catholic School James Valvis
common time
cloud variations
Rachelle Pinnow
Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers Stuart A. Paterson
With Their Flicker Fork Tongues, Snakes Taste the Bitter, Bright Air Blue Moon Enters the Street Arleen Paré
Indian (4) Blood Quantum (8-9) Jordan Abel
That Night She Happened So Easy Nicomekl River Claire Matthews
10 words repeated
Falcon oHara
sometimes old name warning: leaf kotasek
Livingston Cape Celyn Adam Day
Tuesday Shared Accommodation Shaun Robinson
12:33 AM
What Colour is That?
Mormei Zanke
Notes From a Relationship with Hades (#1)
Cindy Pereira
Notes From a Relationship with Hades (#1)
This prairie cold has split my lip.
My mouth tastes like metal.
You haven’t kissed me yet.
You grasp my fat white hand
in your leather-clad grip.
Your breathing is heavy.
We are only trying to drag
grocery bags loaded with
packages of raw meat uphill.
We stumble upon and swear
at patches of black ice.
Sweat trickles down my back
and warm need pools in my chest.
You haven’t kissed me yet.
My jaw clicks as our feet crunch
on dirty snow. I squeeze your fingers tight
and pray—pray for the crack-pop of broken bones.
Pray for a love less violent than our own.