fall 2021
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageSwans at the Golf Club Ruth Daniell
When I See Lake Water Kristin LaFollette
Making the Most of Our Voices Ken Victor
What We Carry on a Pilgrimage Granada, Take Three Elena Johnson
On the Straightaway to the Rockies Great Grandpa's Grain Elevator A Nova Scotian Night Light Ryan Smith
i decay, bro erica hiroko isomura
No One Knows How to Be Good Emily Kedar
Between Then and Then Millicent Borges Accardi
Boy With Orange Phillip Watts Brown
The Graveyard Metaphor for Euphoria Kaye Miller
Upon Watching the Rotation of the Earth Charlotte Vermue Peters
latchkey fragments Frances Boyle
She's a Pretty Bird Susan Zimmerman
Say It Delicious Berry-Picking Laura Cesarco Eglin
A wrist, a wren, a small knife Ellen Stone
Somewhere within Kostanay, Kazakhstan Justin Timbol
Late August at the End of the World Bren Simmers
Granada, Take Three
Where painters succumb to overwhelm,
I attempt to finish a poem.
In every direction, possibilities—
each rooftop spire, each mountain peak.
A 13th century Moorish palace,
the splendour of its fountains alone.
At sundown, each cluster of blackbirds
calling from the branches of an alder.
In a cavern filled with tables,
a musician, eighty-three,
belts out a cante jondo—
the song is older than the singer.
On this cobblestone street, a plaque:
Here lies the home of Enrique Morente.
Here lived Federico García Lorca.
Here is the carmen of Manuel de Falla.
And within his home, a smaller plaque:
Here is the wooden mechanism he built
to roll perfect cigarettes without touching them.