The Maynard

fall 2019

Women of Trachis Savannah Pulfer

Invocation I hold your ashes in my hand Angeline Schellenberg

Now She's Going to Get It Marjorie Silverman

Not really a father, John Sibley Williams

after a suicide Liam Strong

Dark Night Full of Stars After Trout in Siskiyou County Bruce Robinson

Inherited Water View Looking at My Hand I See Her Robert Carr

In the Orchard Justin Runge

{steeple-chase} {grave-tending} {declining dessert} David Morgan O'Connor

Wife Lessons Jody Burke-Kaiser

Ladybug, Ladybug Cristalle Smith

Visionary Nebraska Katie Berger

Zwedru Landa wo

reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells

Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps Janet Youngdahl

Dear Jennifer, Bridget Gage-Dixon

Clay Man Susana H. Case

Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner

Glory and the Neighbors Untidy Ending Lauren Camp

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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
          i too want to be made GOOD
          i too want to be 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?

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