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