fall 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageInherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
Not really a father, John Sibley Williams
Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson
Concurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
The ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
{declining dessert}
At Donovan’s roadhouse we sit discussing
how success is measured by money whether
right or wrong is a fact. I want to disagree
but the Yorkshire pudding is to die for.
My father says I don’t want to get into that right now.
Isn’t survival the only ruler? I keep to myself.
The carrot grease is proof of God. Stout foam.
Over the next three hours we’ll drive in circles.
They’ll no longer give me insurance, he says.
I imagine informing a soldier of imminent amputation.
Pre-dawn regret, cap in hand, a cop approaching a mother’s door.
I am sorry to inform you last night there was a—
—recalculation and nothing more to be done.