fall 2017
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Limits
New York
Brian Jerrold Koester
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
Unsolicited Relationship Advice
Erin Kirsh
Familiar
Pianissimo
Jennifer van Alstyne
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
qualifications
for your consideration
Laura Yan
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
The Malice in My Footsteps
Conyer Clayton
Ode to a Desiccated Olive
(Love is easier the headless way)
James Cagney
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
Somebody Else's Heroes
Small Change
Jocko Benoit
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
Persuasion
Freedom of Speech
Emma Winsor Wood
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather
I tried to work the belt he choked me with
into the shape of a life. But my wisdom
teeth crowned and told me to follow my
bleeding. I fingered all the stains I’ve left
on lovers’ sheets and thought logic is useless
in love (a true enough balm) until I spit up
the stones that smoothed my stomach.
They told me to stare bare-faced into my
mother’s favourite flower. Deep in
the yellow of a pansy she gave me
the advice she always does, “I don’t
know, do what you like.” And then sprinkled
cinnamon sugar on toast and said,
“Sweets will suture each mauled part.”