fall 2017
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Ode to a Desiccated Olive
(Love is easier the headless way)
James Cagney
Parallel Kingdom Elaine Woo
Somebody Else's Heroes
Small Change
Jocko Benoit
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Familiar
Pianissimo
Jennifer van Alstyne
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
The Malice in My Footsteps
Conyer Clayton
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
Unsolicited Relationship Advice
Erin Kirsh
Persuasion
Freedom of Speech
Emma Winsor Wood
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
qualifications
for your consideration
Laura Yan
Limits
New York
Brian Jerrold Koester
* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
Parallel Kingdom
Thousands of miles across the sea, in a land of haw trees and lotus
blossoms, the Monkey King ruptures from a stone. He bears concrete
muscles, girth of great circumference; boasts magical prowess.
Oversight: burdened with non-transformable always-there-tail.
Dressed in a suit of gold, armed with a sword of light, the Monkey King,
glinting like sun-struck tears, desiring to be the mightiest, raises an army
of monkeys against heaven; a sea of heads round and rough as coconuts,
from a single hair plucked from his arm.
Buddha, affronted, punishes the Monkey King by incarcerating him
as the dot under the punctuation-mark-mountain to languish, reflect
for a brief 500 years.