The Maynard

fall 2020

midbrain Anna Leahy

Okapi Wood Bison Kristi Maxwell

The Narrow Road to Deep Marriage John Wall Barger

Harvest This Body Moni Brar

Bingo Card for the End Times Milla van der Have

What We Do When We Run Out of Elephants Shareen K. Murayama

The Northern Flicker Identic Andrew Lafleche

verses upon the burning of our house Amanda Merpaw

One exists The embroidering light you learn J.I. Kleinberg

Bracketed A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare Danielle Badra

Why Not Karen Kevorkian

Fragments of a World Dayna Patterson

My Father's House A.N. Higgins

Routes on the Red Subarctic Archipelago Tongue Heather Simeney MacLeod

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midbrain

      Here, between sensation and action, between sleep and wakefulness,
                a roof, a waterway, some hills, two feet in black sandals,
                            the desire to know, and enough reason for joy—

                            In the deep center, the body knows when to blink
                and when not to feel pain. Here, the right hand knows
      what the left hand does. Memories of muscles

      and what to do with sound—
                The nearby reservoir is mothered by tenderness
                            and a spider. There, a drop of blood like a thunderclap—

                            Here, climate. Here, the body’s stem, the stone, the pit—

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