spring 2018
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageGrim Reaper in Therapy Brandon Marlon
Trump As a Fire Without Light #665 Darren C. Demaree
Ice Skating in Holland Carol Hamilton
The Path Discoverer Taylor Bond
drowning man is not a superhero Aidan Chafe
Never the Desired Absence Nick Alti
First Ultrasound Second Ultrasound Stephanie Yorke
an understanding Natasha Zarin
Like André Derain David R. Dixon
Sea Room / The Adrift Exhibit / Queer Lynx Joseph Spece
Cracked Fabergé Egg Of Yes Lauren Turner
Synonyms For Shelter Jill Talbot
He Ring Liar's Dice Confluence Derek Thomas Dew
Push Armamentarium Adrienne Gruber
Dear Chepe Wilbur Melissa Weiss
Naming Cow Field Danielle Hanson
Wet Parable Duck Carver Nathan Curnow
Naming
Naming something is committing it to memory. Death,
hovering over a field, is called Eurasian kestrel.
Mountain evading sky is called Alp, or Himalaya, or...
The startling of day into hiding, like a doe in the forest,
is called night, and now doe and forest can take residence
in our brains. Day, peaking from the corner to see
if it’s safe, is called stars, but never moon, never flashlight or firefly.
A rock has always been a rock, even a toddler knows,
and there’s no sense in naming it.