spring 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home Page
orange socks
there are bad men at the top
Kate LaDew
Across This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
Tensions
Orange Bottles
Sean Singer
Against All Odds
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
When the Time Comes
Soothing
Cameron Morse
Magnetic Resonance
Lisa Mulrooney
Terrigenous
Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Sophocles
Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle
Charles Kell
Catastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane
Sabyasachi Nag
Six Thousand Dollars
Cole Depuy
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin


Orange Bottles
Today in the taxi an elderly man got out and left his pills. I hesitated and called for him, but he didn’t hear.
Imagining his stroke in the building’s lobby, or a cancer eating his liver in the elevator, I left the car and chased him down.
I was the copper snake on a bed of ropes. Then I remembered the Midrash said When we do good, we must do it joyfully.