spring 2021
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageDrought Flash Flood Samantha Jones
No Fixed Thing Space Follows Adam Day
The Guilt of Not Wanting Ashley Prince
The Year We Considered Foster Care Sunni Brown Wilkinson
Self-Portrait as Used Condom Riding the Wonder Wheel Melissa Eleftherion
Ghazal With Malbec, No Cigarettes Oxytocin Pandemic Love Poem Lisa Richter
The Deer Who Sneak Into Father's Butchering Shack at Night L M Schmidt
Fits and Starts Natasha Pepperl
The Retrograde of a Frigid Planet Self-Portrait as an Internal Dialogue on Rue St-Laurent, 2016 Lauren Turner
White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum) Coyote (Canis latrans) Blue Morpho Butterfly (Morpho menelaus) Jordan Mounteer
arma virumque cano Revelation on Baptist Hill Libby Maxey
Drought
The flats cry out
with the sound
of one million mud cracks
splitting, lifting, peeling
back into polygonal paradise,
thirsting for every drop of sweat
off the brows of passersby
drip drip disappear
into this honeycomb
of desire.