fall 2019
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Dear Jennifer,
Bridget Gage-Dixon
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Now She's Going to Get It
Marjorie Silverman
Glory and the Neighbors
Untidy Ending
Lauren Camp
Concurrent Incidents
I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her
Jaimie Gusman
Invocation
I hold your ashes in my hand
Angeline Schellenberg
Wife Lessons
Jody Burke-Kaiser
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps
Janet Youngdahl
{steeple-chase}
{grave-tending}
{declining dessert}
David Morgan O'Connor
Ladybug, Ladybug
Cristalle Smith
Inherited Water View
Looking at My Hand I See Her
Robert Carr
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Women of Trachis
Savannah Pulfer
Dark Night Full of Stars
After Trout in Siskiyou County
Bruce Robinson
Visionary
Nebraska
Katie Berger
The ice was coming nicely
Matthew Schmidt
Not really a father,
John Sibley Williams
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Meredith Quartermain
Women of Trachis
SOPHOCLES
takes a violent character and makes her
DUTIFUL, makes her
WIFE, makes her
DOMESTIC.
DEINARA,
i too want to be made DUTIFUL
made GOOD
made INNOCENT
STRIPPED of my family history
UPROOTED from the soils that raised me
called GIRL with my corpse lying in the marriage bed
bleeding out into a man’s sheets the way i am supposed to.
SOPHOCLES, tragedian,
can you wash my hands of poison, too?
show me how to be the bearer of someone else’s FAITH//
i mean FATE//
i mean can you show me how to be a WOMB//i mean WOMAN//
the way i am supposed to be.
DEINARA, amazon,
is it comforting to be reduced to a vessel?
to be poured out by stronger hands?