fall 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageNot really a father, John Sibley Williams
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
Inherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
Concurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson
Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Now She’s Going to Get It
Who does she become
while you’re
behind her
behind
sliding fingers
each stair
each stare
gentle as an
uppercut.
**
Kitchen wallpaper.
Winter dawn.
**
You.
Hover.
Wait.
Want.
While your prey
pretends
you can’t
penetrate
her cereal box
barricade.