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


The Curse
This is not a curse.
now it’s written.
It is not written down.
therefore real.
Not yet even thought of.
it’s in your mind:
Everybody knows that
it can be read.