fall 2019
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageThe ice was coming nicely Matthew Schmidt
Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson
Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon
Inherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer
Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl
Not really a father, John Sibley Williams
Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger
Concurrent Incidents I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her Jaimie Gusman
Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg
Powered By English Y Pronounced EE Meredith Quartermain
{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor
Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman
Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp
{grave-tending}
Behind St. Mary’s in Kilasarn
we weed your parent’s grave
then your sister my aunt who married
Jesus 60 years ago says
I don’t want to go in here.
But there is space, you say, your space.
I want whatever’s easiest. Cremation.
Nearest St. Louis’ plot, no stone.
You say, but we’ll never find you.
I want what’s easiest. We eat lunch.
Watch Gibraltar tie the Republic, saddest
game ever. Easier not to be found. No goals.
You tell me I need to get a colposcopy.
I’ll make it my summer plan, I say going
out the door to smoke knowing full well
what claims half the family and I’m the last.