fall 2021
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageWhat We Carry on a Pilgrimage Granada, Take Three Elena Johnson
The Graveyard Metaphor for Euphoria Kaye Miller
Boy With Orange Phillip Watts Brown
A wrist, a wren, a small knife Ellen Stone
i decay, bro erica hiroko isomura
Making the Most of Our Voices Ken Victor
Somewhere within Kostanay, Kazakhstan Justin Timbol
Between Then and Then Millicent Borges Accardi
On the Straightaway to the Rockies Great Grandpa's Grain Elevator A Nova Scotian Night Light Ryan Smith
Swans at the Golf Club Ruth Daniell
Late August at the End of the World Bren Simmers
Upon Watching the Rotation of the Earth Charlotte Vermue Peters
When I See Lake Water Kristin LaFollette
Say It Delicious Berry-Picking Laura Cesarco Eglin
She's a Pretty Bird Susan Zimmerman
No One Knows How to Be Good Emily Kedar
latchkey fragments Frances Boyle
Boy With Orange
As he peels, the bright fruit
shifts sun to moon
which soon will wane
to a single wedge of light.
The boy, his own planet,
orbits the afternoon
in dizzy loops. Sweet citrus
of another boy’s kiss
stinging his lip.
Physics says a pull exists
between bodies:
sun and earth, earth and moon
or two boys close enough
the tides inside them rise
like a hand
to a fruit-bearing branch
like a tongue
to ripe translucence.
Though Newton’s law
doesn’t tell what happens after:
how a boy should live,
which world to circle.