spring 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageSophocles Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle Charles Kell
Terrigenous Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
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
When the Time Comes Soothing Cameron Morse
Tensions Orange Bottles Sean Singer
Six Thousand Dollars Cole Depuy
Against All Odds Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Across This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
Magnetic Resonance Lisa Mulrooney
Against All Odds
we’ve shared twelve-thousand days and more
weathered ice-storms, power failures, several
cats, re-negotiated mortgages and joy
love’s fierce trajectories —
equal parts laughter, sadness, subtle alchemies
lately, I’ve been dreaming grassy pools
moist sand, birds the colours of crushed coral —
fragile, thin-boned, soft —
perhaps a snowy egret, plovers
or sand pipers rumpled white — no sense
of why — they seemed deliberate
induced perhaps by cinnamon, lemon, or stevia
shaken well — three sprays
under the tongue — the murmur of nuns
poems, promises and paths
while all I ask are breath and you — to find my
way through fog and wilderness — a stone
to walk on water, lightly