fall 2020
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageThe Narrow Road to Deep Marriage John Wall Barger
verses upon the burning of our house Amanda Merpaw
The Northern Flicker Identic Andrew Lafleche
Neurons, Metal, Seed Reading Rocks and Mountains Susan Landgraf
Routes on the Red Subarctic Archipelago Tongue Heather Simeney MacLeod
Turf's Yield Derek Thomas Dew
Horses Innocence, Experience Ryan Eavis
In a Dark Field Jesse Sensibar
Netsuke When We Wake Together in a Lost City Iris Jamahl Dunkle
What We Do When We Run Out of Elephants Shareen K. Murayama
Fragments of a World Dayna Patterson
My Father's House A.N. Higgins
Pattern Recognition Tolu Oloruntoba
Bracketed A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare Danielle Badra
from Vanishing Twin Syndrome: VII James Cagney
Bingo Card for the End Times Milla van der Have
Okapi Wood Bison Kristi Maxwell
One exists The embroidering light you learn J.I. Kleinberg
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.