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