fall 2016
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageA Little Soap Work Leena Niemela
After Jim Morrison, May 1985 Manny Blacksher
* (You test each hole for winter) * (Your shadow spreads across) * (Shielding your lips this stone) Simon Perchik
With Their Flicker Fork Tongues, Snakes Taste the Bitter, Bright Air Blue Moon Enters the Street Arleen Paré
sometimes old name warning: leaf kotasek
That Night She Happened So Easy Nicomekl River Claire Matthews
She, animal Rachel Jansen
common time cloud variations Rachelle Pinnow
Penmanship in Catholic School James Valvis
Indian (4) Blood Quantum (8-9) Jordan Abel
Certain Things You Should Know About Rusty Kathleen M. Heideman
Notes From a Relationship with Hades (#1) Cindy Pereira
Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers Stuart A. Paterson
Livingston Cape Celyn Adam Day
Tuesday Shared Accommodation Shaun Robinson
Sigmund Freud, Action Figure Meghan Bell
12:33 AM What Colour is That? Mormei Zanke
10 words repeated Falcon oHara
She, animal
When I sweat do I change
or become more myself
I climb mountains scoop thoughts
from my mind feel
them melt sublimate settle into primate
I push upwards also to press my body against
humanity feel the barrier and back away
who is this person I see in mirrors
and label I sometimes I see animal
sometimes girl I turn my head and
she’s lines and shadows nothing of the two
who do my thoughts belong to
where will they go when her body becomes
cotton batting under rain when beetles chew
on strings of ligaments God says she’s better
than animal but I don’t believe in God
and what does it mean that male bears
grasp hind-ends of females with forceful claws
for sex what does it mean the reverse of God
is animal am I wild is she wild
how do I know that what I see is who I am
how do I know what animals see
when they see themselves
I saw a leopard once stalking
in the Amazon she chuffed and the river split
where she dragged her kill
she stopped to watch me.