fall 2017
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Familiar
Pianissimo
Jennifer van Alstyne
* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
Somebody Else's Heroes
Small Change
Jocko Benoit
Persuasion
Freedom of Speech
Emma Winsor Wood
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
The Malice in My Footsteps
Conyer Clayton
Limits
New York
Brian Jerrold Koester
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Unsolicited Relationship Advice
Erin Kirsh
qualifications
for your consideration
Laura Yan
Ode to a Desiccated Olive
(Love is easier the headless way)
James Cagney
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Familiar
Sometimes I fill with guilt, heavy stomach
—hiding in this bar where smoke riddled chatter
keeps him from entering.
Gould’s love is too much, bittersweet
—love which overwhelms like hoppy beer,
a form of IPA kinship.
When Glenn asked me to be his brother, legally,
my heart froze to whisper,
I already have brothers.
But let us be friends.