spring 2019
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Tensions
Orange Bottles
Sean Singer
Against All Odds
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Sophocles
Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle
Charles Kell
Terrigenous
Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
Catastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane
Sabyasachi Nag
When the Time Comes
Soothing
Cameron Morse
orange socks
there are bad men at the top
Kate LaDew
Across This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
Magnetic Resonance
Lisa Mulrooney
Six Thousand Dollars
Cole Depuy
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
Soothing
He won’t let it go. Lili and I take turns going in
to soothe and sleep him. She bends
over the crib rail, patting his shoulder
until her back twinges. In the kitchenette, I heat
the water. The bottle warmer crackles.
Its orange satanic light gleams and blinks out
in the dark. Crook of my arm,
Theo writhes, he turns his head away. He writhes.
Head turned, he returns to the crib, reaches
for a whitewashed baluster and raises himself.
Again and again, he raises himself,
reaches and I brush his hand away. His hands
fly to the cage bars. I press them to his chest.
Loom above him in the dark, seething.