fall 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageNow She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson
Not really a father, John Sibley Williams
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Concurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman
Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
Inherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
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.