fall 2016
Table of Contents
Return to Home Pagecommon time cloud variations Rachelle Pinnow
Notes From a Relationship with Hades (#1) Cindy Pereira
Certain Things You Should Know About Rusty Kathleen M. Heideman
sometimes old name warning: leaf kotasek
10 words repeated Falcon oHara
That Night She Happened So Easy Nicomekl River Claire Matthews
Indian (4) Blood Quantum (8-9) Jordan Abel
Livingston Cape Celyn Adam Day
With Their Flicker Fork Tongues, Snakes Taste the Bitter, Bright Air Blue Moon Enters the Street Arleen Paré
* (You test each hole for winter) * (Your shadow spreads across) * (Shielding your lips this stone) Simon Perchik
Sigmund Freud, Action Figure Meghan Bell
After Jim Morrison, May 1985 Manny Blacksher
Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers Stuart A. Paterson
Tuesday Shared Accommodation Shaun Robinson
Penmanship in Catholic School James Valvis
12:33 AM What Colour is That? Mormei Zanke
A Little Soap Work Leena Niemela
*
You test each hole for winter
mixed with seawater
and from a single fingertip
someone near is counting
as if the sky is lit
by campfires and overflowing
that harden into sand not yet
a path for thirst and gravel
needs footsteps that can tear down
a mountain just to move you
further and under its darkness
—you dig, want so little room
no garden, no winding rivers
that slowly come to a stop
as if this time you could
go to bed without the radio on
covering you arm in arm
—you hear your finger bleed
crushed under some rock
floating by to shut out the cold
and from your shoulders the words
though your mouth is empty
longing for dirt, lifeless
taken ashore here somewhere.