fall 2017
Table of Contents
Return to Home Page* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
The Malice in My Footsteps
Conyer Clayton
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
Hyoid
Elana Wolff
Limits
New York
Brian Jerrold Koester
qualifications
for your consideration
Laura Yan
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Unsolicited Relationship Advice
Erin Kirsh
Familiar
Pianissimo
Jennifer van Alstyne
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Persuasion
Freedom of Speech
Emma Winsor Wood
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
Somebody Else's Heroes
Small Change
Jocko Benoit
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
Ode to a Desiccated Olive
(Love is easier the headless way)
James Cagney
Hyoid
A clutch of shrubs and stand of trees on the
knoll on the way to the grave. The boy & girl
entrusted to us the moment we brought them in.
We get our moral feeling first from colour.
Let it not be read I haven’t loved enough,
I’m trying. Coreopsis, Say what you will,
your other side is violet. This, the law of
complements that binds us like a thigh.
I stand alone, lay stones on the gravestone,
clover, and a note—one can stun from nothing,
make the sun appear impromptu. We do this
with the word. & if ink is insufficient,
there is speech to turn to, and birds.
A chaffinch crosses the path and turns to crow.
Black wings flapping echo in my hyoid: bone
at the base of the tongue, unlike any other:
little wish that breaks away from pre-articulation.
It’s the story of the hyoid to enable complex
human speech, its deft manipulations.
You touched my horseshoe-U by stealth
and bent the lesser horns.