fall 2016
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Sigmund Freud, Action Figure Meghan Bell
Notes From a Relationship with Hades (#1)
Cindy Pereira
She, animal
Rachel Jansen
After Jim Morrison, May 1985
Manny Blacksher
Penmanship in Catholic School James Valvis
A Little Soap Work
Leena Niemela
That Night She Happened So Easy Nicomekl River Claire Matthews
Indian (4) Blood Quantum (8-9) Jordan Abel
common time
cloud variations
Rachelle Pinnow
Livingston Cape Celyn Adam Day
12:33 AM
What Colour is That?
Mormei Zanke
Tuesday Shared Accommodation Shaun Robinson
10 words repeated
Falcon oHara
* (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
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
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.