fall 2016
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageAfter Jim Morrison, May 1985 Manny Blacksher
10 words repeated Falcon oHara
Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers Stuart A. Paterson
Certain Things You Should Know About Rusty Kathleen M. Heideman
Indian (4) Blood Quantum (8-9) Jordan Abel
That Night She Happened So Easy Nicomekl River Claire Matthews
sometimes old name warning: leaf kotasek
Notes From a Relationship with Hades (#1) Cindy Pereira
* (You test each hole for winter) * (Your shadow spreads across) * (Shielding your lips this stone) Simon Perchik
Penmanship in Catholic School James Valvis
Sigmund Freud, Action Figure Meghan Bell
Tuesday Shared Accommodation Shaun Robinson
12:33 AM What Colour is That? Mormei Zanke
A Little Soap Work Leena Niemela
With Their Flicker Fork Tongues, Snakes Taste the Bitter, Bright Air Blue Moon Enters the Street Arleen Paré
common time cloud variations Rachelle Pinnow
Livingston Cape Celyn Adam Day
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.