fall 2020
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In a Dark Field
Jesse Sensibar
My Father's House
A.N. Higgins
Turf's Yield
Derek Thomas Dew
Okapi Wood Bison Kristi Maxwell
Bracketed
A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare
Danielle Badra
The Northern Flicker
Identic
Andrew Lafleche
The Narrow Road to Deep Marriage
John Wall Barger
Pattern Recognition
Tolu Oloruntoba
One exists
The embroidering light
you learn
J.I. Kleinberg
Routes on the Red Subarctic Archipelago Tongue Heather Simeney MacLeod
Bingo Card for the End Times
Milla van der Have
verses upon the burning of our house
Amanda Merpaw
Neurons, Metal, Seed
Reading Rocks and Mountains
Susan Landgraf
Fragments of a World
Dayna Patterson
from Vanishing Twin Syndrome: VII
James Cagney
What We Do When We Run Out of Elephants
Shareen K. Murayama
Netsuke
When We Wake Together in a Lost City
Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Horses Innocence, Experience
Ryan Eavis
Turf’s Yield
Some balconies, all far too confident.
Blind to listen to nothing
as if a gigantic body of water
were right around the corner.
While we’re here we should let insects crawl on us:
Everything must do how distance
used to fold time when it was certain
a balcony would hold strong.
As quick as a puddle seems to a dime, you knew.
The bare trees gape slender like burnt nails
in the lesser errands of a cooked yacht
covered in insects.
As quick as a fist of moths.
Together we try to mimic the snore
of the oldest woman on the balconies
but can’t do the tan lines.
The greatest of all loves is a reluctance to sing.