spring 2021
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Fits and Starts
Natasha Pepperl
Ghazal With Malbec, No Cigarettes
Oxytocin Pandemic Love Poem
Lisa Richter
The Retrograde of a Frigid Planet
Self-Portrait as an Internal Dialogue on Rue St-Laurent, 2016
Lauren Turner
The Guilt of Not Wanting
Ashley Prince
White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum)
Coyote (Canis latrans)
Blue Morpho Butterfly (Morpho menelaus)
Jordan Mounteer
The Deer Who Sneak Into Father's Butchering Shack at Night
L M Schmidt
The Year We Considered Foster Care
Sunni Brown Wilkinson
No Fixed Thing Space Follows Adam Day
Drought
Flash Flood
Samantha Jones
Self-Portrait as Used Condom Riding the Wonder Wheel
Melissa Eleftherion
arma virumque cano
Revelation on Baptist Hill
Libby Maxey


Revelation on Baptist Hill
I decide that honesty is like a stone—
a small, straightedge, striated stone—
because I see it in the road
real and undisguised
unsusceptible to anything I think
and I kick it, hard, twice
and it makes me no apology.