fall 2017
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Unsolicited Relationship Advice
Erin Kirsh
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
The Malice in My Footsteps
Conyer Clayton
Familiar
Pianissimo
Jennifer van Alstyne
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
Persuasion
Freedom of Speech
Emma Winsor Wood
* (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
Ode to a Desiccated Olive
(Love is easier the headless way)
James Cagney
Limits
New York
Brian Jerrold Koester
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Limits
Kurt wasn’t two yet
and I wasn’t six
when Mom put him
in a drycleaner’s plastic bag
and left him on the floor.
The boy who never sat still
sat still, smiling.
I’m no hero, but
I crawled in
and we sat together
while I kept the bag open.
Mom came roaring at us,
but blood wouldn’t have looked
like an accident.