fall 2019
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Return to Home PageInherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
Not really a father, John Sibley Williams
after a suicide Liam Strong
Concurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
after a suicide
for Jayme
there is no right thing to do.
i pissed on the church
you had done the same to
twenty years ago. i inherited
no piss for the next three hours.
i wasn’t even drunk. on the walk home
the first branch of a rabbit
split on the road this season.
the powerline maintenance sawed
two dozen trees down the next morning.
weeks later, the stumps. a pyrite afterbirth
from the removal.
i want to piss into the mounds
where a hole should have been.
let there be some flower or fungus
dumb enough to grow in my creases.
let there be a rain uncaring enough
to wriggle a garden from our places, our piss.
let there be nothing left to remember us
by, but what we leave behind more than
any other thing.