spring 2017
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageInside My House Gleaning Stones Onjana Yawnghwe
First Loves in Brevoort Park Body Analysis Erin Hiebert
Dear Miss Parker Dear Mama Chelene Knight
from Electric Garden Amanda Earl
box cars paper plates annie ross
Singing in Dark Times Bhaswati Ghosh
Romeo, Romeo, WTF? P.C. Vandall
from Glossary of Musical Terms rob mclennan
Aztlan Travels Emiliano Sepulveda
The Lady or the Tiger? Michelle Brooks
Constantly Looking, Admitting Nothing Paul Douglas McNeill II
Red Sarongs Clementine Chelsea Comeau
We Could Have Called Him Joe, We Didn't Juliane Okot Bitek
Prayer For Our Past Selves Esther McPhee
A Coke and a KitKat Spenser Smith
Singing in Dark Times—a Manual for Encoding Dissent
Talk in whispers
But make them so low-pitched
That no one can hear
Them. Not even the person
You whisper to.
Clever one-liners are
Good. Check your
Ambition in using them, though.
Satire works well, too. It’s
Always safer to quote a dead or
Well-known writer.
Post music, lots of it,
Songs of protest and of
Love. Also post jokes and
Photos of food, cats, your
Toddler. Who doesn’t
Deserve a break from Aleppo’s
Bombed Children and India’s
Suicide-committing farmers?
Hide. Behind symbols
With multiple metaphors. Open-ended
Totems of ambiguity.
Amid the word-pelleting
From different camps, watch
Out for “Nation building,”
“Anti-national,” “Greater good,”
And “Patriotic.” Loaded missiles
Before which your feeble,
Weightless humanity must
Shiver in defeat.