spring 2019
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Against All Odds
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Sophocles
Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle
Charles Kell
Tensions
Orange Bottles
Sean Singer
Across This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
Six Thousand Dollars
Cole Depuy
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
Terrigenous
Michelle Mitchell-Foust
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
orange socks
there are bad men at the top
Kate LaDew
When the Time Comes
Soothing
Cameron Morse
Catastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane
Sabyasachi Nag
Magnetic Resonance
Lisa Mulrooney
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You
I think I should be alone
means I know
means not necessarily alone
just without you
means now
not six months from now
means that when I hide my hand in my pocket
I don’t want you to find it with yours
means stop sending love songs
means don’t chase me through digital spaces
as though they’re the rooms of a house we share
filled with re-framed narratives
means my mistakes don’t make me
a debt you can collect
like the photos of myself alone in bed
that you ask for nightly
means don’t come to town and stay three blocks away
and use words like owe and deserve and
no one will love you like this again
god
here’s hoping