fall 2017
Table of Contents
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What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Midwinter Natalie Crick
Ode to a Desiccated Olive
(Love is easier the headless way)
James Cagney
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
Familiar
Pianissimo
Jennifer van Alstyne
qualifications
for your consideration
Laura Yan
Persuasion
Freedom of Speech
Emma Winsor Wood
Unsolicited Relationship Advice
Erin Kirsh
The Malice in My Footsteps
Conyer Clayton
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
Limits
New York
Brian Jerrold Koester
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Somebody Else's Heroes
Small Change
Jocko Benoit
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
Midwinter
Trees appear as brides,
Their snow dance wounding
The cosmos.
I am numb to you.
No one sees the snowdrops budding,
A bright field of knives.
If I turn away, they grow
In lines of white flame and
As darkness falls,
A kingdom of black blossoms
Deep as a moaning mouth.