fall 2016
Table of Contents
Return to Home Page* (You test each hole for winter) * (Your shadow spreads across) * (Shielding your lips this stone) Simon Perchik
Certain Things You Should Know About Rusty
Kathleen M. Heideman
12:33 AM
What Colour is That?
Mormei Zanke
sometimes old name warning: leaf kotasek
10 words repeated
Falcon oHara
That Night She Happened So Easy Nicomekl River Claire Matthews
After Jim Morrison, May 1985
Manny Blacksher
Indian (4) Blood Quantum (8-9) Jordan Abel
With Their Flicker Fork Tongues, Snakes Taste the Bitter, Bright Air Blue Moon Enters the Street Arleen Paré
Tuesday Shared Accommodation Shaun Robinson
A Little Soap Work
Leena Niemela
Notes From a Relationship with Hades (#1)
Cindy Pereira
Sigmund Freud, Action Figure Meghan Bell
common time
cloud variations
Rachelle Pinnow
Penmanship in Catholic School James Valvis
Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers Stuart A. Paterson
Livingston Cape Celyn Adam Day
That Night She Happened So Easy
Everything you want to know has been written
on a bathroom stall. If anyone wants
to say hello, I’m right here.
Toronto was the first place she’d been
where Surrey Girl didn’t mean
anything. She wanted to move there.
We drew water borders around
North America. Short of counting the words
in our textbooks, there was nothing left
to do. In third grade, we made penises
out of elastic bands. She knew what it looked like
when you stripped it of its animal-ness.
A girl knows within the first five minutes.
Since you’ve been getting laid, I like you. Keep it
up. Pregnancy isn’t a surprise. It’s what people do
when they’re idle. What keeps people
silent: the girl found face down in the Nicomekl River.
That night, she happened so easy. Everyone thinks
trust is being able to close your eyes, but really
it’s keeping them open. Clusters of cul-de-sacs, flurries
of taillights: the backseat a taste you can’t trust.
She was breath on the window.