The Maynard

fall 2020

verses upon the burning of our house Amanda Merpaw

Miracle Whip P.W. Bridgman

Bingo Card for the End Times Milla van der Have

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

Bracketed A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare Danielle Badra

Pattern Recognition Tolu Oloruntoba

midbrain Anna Leahy

In a Dark Field Jesse Sensibar

Soft Poem Louise Carson

Neurons, Metal, Seed Reading Rocks and Mountains Susan Landgraf

from Vanishing Twin Syndrome: VII James Cagney

The Narrow Road to Deep Marriage John Wall Barger

Harvest This Body Moni Brar

In the Be Tureeda Mikell

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

Fragments of a World Dayna Patterson

My Father's House A.N. Higgins

Netsuke When We Wake Together in a Lost City Iris Jamahl Dunkle

Why Not Karen Kevorkian

Turf's Yield Derek Thomas Dew

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verses upon the burning of our house

—after Anne Bradstreet

i.
no i didn’t look for sorrow
grown silent in the kitchen

ii.
i told you we dwelled
to one side of ourselves

iii.
do you know what it is
to be overcome

iv.
i took direction from
the crack in the tub

(you know the one)

v.
i revived the stopped press
i’ll mind my ghosts

vi.
yes
i lit the match

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