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
Persuasion
Freedom of Speech
Emma Winsor Wood
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Unsolicited Relationship Advice
Erin Kirsh
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
Somebody Else's Heroes
Small Change
Jocko Benoit
The Malice in My Footsteps
Conyer Clayton
Ode to a Desiccated Olive
(Love is easier the headless way)
James Cagney
Limits
New York
Brian Jerrold Koester
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
Familiar
Pianissimo
Jennifer van Alstyne
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
qualifications
my mother has a way of
repeating herself asks
the same questions
about whether i’m cooking
or cold i tell her not to
expect marriage that i’m
happier alone she’s filled
with untapped potential
young she was pretty
prim and sulky and
younger still my grandma
told her she couldn’t sing
she married my father’s
kindness though she was
much prettier wishes he
had ambition she never
got a college degree told
me i could do anything sent
emails pleading for me to remove
that photo of myself at nineteen
wearing a sheer white gown
in a tiny seaside town she
speaks english with an accent
says politics don’t affect her
though now she jokes about
deportation and when i help
her with a resume after 12 years
still in the same petty law office
making less than i did at my first
office time job i worry they’ll
see her age grammar mistakes
chinese ways and how
they’ll say no.