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
Ghazal With Malbec, No Cigarettes
Oxytocin Pandemic Love Poem
Lisa Richter
Self-Portrait as Used Condom Riding the Wonder Wheel
Melissa Eleftherion
The Guilt of Not Wanting
Ashley Prince
Fits and Starts
Natasha Pepperl
arma virumque cano
Revelation on Baptist Hill
Libby Maxey
No Fixed Thing Space Follows Adam Day
The Year We Considered Foster Care
Sunni Brown Wilkinson
only temporary
Robyn Bowes
White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum)
Coyote (Canis latrans)
Blue Morpho Butterfly (Morpho menelaus)
Jordan Mounteer
The Retrograde of a Frigid Planet
Self-Portrait as an Internal Dialogue on Rue St-Laurent, 2016
Lauren Turner
only temporary
each day is a swarm of mayflies
clinging to the mandarin’s pith
at a certain point i swallow
membrane is membrane as mayfly
is mandarin try not to think about it
june and mayflies stick little legs
in the congealed jam on the jar rim
its jarring really to break small bodies
for toast place the lid and spin wings
wingspans away from each other
i eat one serving of fruit in the time
a nymph hatches from egg emerges
from the dishwater wills its wings
into existence i don’t know why
i thought they’d stay until september