spring 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageAcross This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
Terrigenous
Michelle Mitchell-Foust
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
orange socks
there are bad men at the top
Kate LaDew
Catastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane
Sabyasachi Nag
Magnetic Resonance
Lisa Mulrooney
Sophocles
Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle
Charles Kell
Six Thousand Dollars
Cole Depuy
When the Time Comes
Soothing
Cameron Morse
Tensions
Orange Bottles
Sean Singer
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
Against All Odds
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
When the Time Comes
Triage late
the night her water breaks,
a fetal heart monitor
seismographs
our son’s heartrate.
The printer pushes out
a page so long it folds in
on itself, so long
it flops onto the floor,
heartbeat-scarred,
jagged as a fissure
splitting open some parking lot
in Tōhoku. Early morning
in the labor room
we hear the grind and whirr
of construction resume
on the other side of the wall.
Out the window
a crane pirouettes
to the thunderclap of dump trucks.