fall 2019
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The ice was coming nicely
Matthew Schmidt
Wife Lessons
Jody Burke-Kaiser
Invocation
I hold your ashes in my hand
Angeline Schellenberg
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Women of Trachis
Savannah Pulfer
Dark Night Full of Stars
After Trout in Siskiyou County
Bruce Robinson
Ladybug, Ladybug
Cristalle Smith
Concurrent Incidents
I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her
Jaimie Gusman
Now She's Going to Get It
Marjorie Silverman
Not really a father,
John Sibley Williams
Powered By English
Y Pronounced EE
Meredith Quartermain
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Inherited Water View
Looking at My Hand I See Her
Robert Carr
Glory and the Neighbors
Untidy Ending
Lauren Camp
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps
Janet Youngdahl
Dear Jennifer,
Bridget Gage-Dixon
Visionary
Nebraska
Katie Berger
{steeple-chase}
{grave-tending}
{declining dessert}
David Morgan O'Connor
Inherited Water View
I sit counting gold
from my father’s teeth.
What else am I to do?
He didn’t leave his glasses
or a pipe. How am I
to read or smoke
obituaries as I kindle
wood-stove coals?
Who decided winter
became an old man?
She flurries toward me
across the lake, scores ice
with blue finger fire.
There’s a hammer
in the garage, toolbox
he also left me. I will beat
his fillings into coin, engrave
words I didn’t speak,
sleep with his precious
metal under my pillow.