spring 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageSixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
Tinnitus Emily Osborne
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
orange socks
there are bad men at the top
Kate LaDew
Tensions
Orange Bottles
Sean Singer
When the Time Comes
Soothing
Cameron Morse
Six Thousand Dollars
Cole Depuy
Terrigenous
Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Sophocles
Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle
Charles Kell
Magnetic Resonance
Lisa Mulrooney
Against All Odds
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Tinnitus
We spawned and scuffed CDs, learned
audio empathy by grazing bystanders’
beats and FM frequencies. The aughts
brought hush-hush pods and buds,
closemouthed buses. Adults still agreed
we’d X-out decibels or acquire chronic
rings when no one’s dialling. Now we’ve
subbed tones for buzzes, apps plugged
to amp our phantom FOMO, jazzing
in arrhythmic pulses, like pacemakers
with tangled signals. Our days shuffle
with spectral pings when no one’s msg-ing.
We’re HSPs synced to faint text flutters,
voices breaking in percussive stutters.