spring 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageI Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
Across This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
Catastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane
Sabyasachi Nag
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
Against All Odds
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
When the Time Comes
Soothing
Cameron Morse
Sophocles
Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle
Charles Kell
Magnetic Resonance
Lisa Mulrooney
orange socks
there are bad men at the top
Kate LaDew
Tensions
Orange Bottles
Sean Singer
Six Thousand Dollars
Cole Depuy
Terrigenous
Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Sophocles
I return to the scene
of the crime. Gather pebbles
in my open palm, inhale
grains of dirt. A funeral
moves through the field.
Men & women draped in black
trudge solemnly over rock,
through mud, up the hill
where a priest waits.
I stand alone, off to the side.
Close by a white lily burns
filling the air with smoke.
I want more than description,
more than tasting grilled
fish, rice mixing
between my teeth.
Light your pipe under the tree.
Wait until each one disappears
returning to family, work,
more news of
catastrophe. There’s sun
on the mountain but the rain
is not done. I will walk
toward the shed at the foot
of the small cemetery.
Will hang my coat on a nail,
take the garden shears
& cut my hair. I will sprinkle
the soft brown strands
over the grave then wait two
months for the dead to rise.