fall 2017
Table of Contents
Return to Home Page* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
qualifications
for your consideration
Laura Yan
Somebody Else's Heroes
Small Change
Jocko Benoit
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
The Malice in My Footsteps
Conyer Clayton
Persuasion
Freedom of Speech
Emma Winsor Wood
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Ode to a Desiccated Olive
(Love is easier the headless way)
James Cagney
Unsolicited Relationship Advice
Erin Kirsh
Familiar
Pianissimo
Jennifer van Alstyne
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
Quantum Buddy
Ben Gallagher
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Limits
New York
Brian Jerrold Koester
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
Quantum Buddy
-for Zoë
The hand is clenched, palm up:
when fingers open it is released.
The hand is clenched, palm down:
when the fingers are opened, it drops.
It is the science of the very small
that is uncertain, no answer
except a probability,
smeared paint over a pinprick
in the canvas of particles.
I live in the large world
where I say I know
my keys are in my other coat
although I didn’t know soon enough.
I say I know I am here for a reason
and in the large world I can lie
so I do.
In the large world the car
took the turn too fast
and you are dead,
this I am certain of and
always will be, but
in the small world you could be
anywhere, as long as I don’t look
you are my quantum buddy,
the cresting edge of a wave.
But I do look
and the clenched hand
of my mind opens:
have I dropped you again,
are you rising
as if released?