spring 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageSophocles Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle Charles Kell
Magnetic Resonance Lisa Mulrooney
Tensions Orange Bottles Sean Singer
orange socks there are bad men at the top Kate LaDew
Against All Odds Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Six Thousand Dollars Cole Depuy
Across This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
Catastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane Sabyasachi Nag
Terrigenous Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
When the Time Comes Soothing Cameron Morse
Tensions
Today in the taxi when a wild HVAC truck cut me off, I thought of Mingus and how he managed his rising anger.
Everyone knows he put a shotgun hole in his ceiling when he was being evicted, and that he grabbed a fire axe to kill Juan Tizol who chased him down with a sharpened “Cuban frog sticker,” but what about in his private moments when he was asleep, or in the shower?
What remains is the timber of his bass melting in the black firmament of a fluid tunnel, and the black rose looking down on the mass of the earth.