fall 2016
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageTuesday Shared Accommodation Shaun Robinson
With Their Flicker Fork Tongues, Snakes Taste the Bitter, Bright Air Blue Moon Enters the Street Arleen Paré
After Jim Morrison, May 1985 Manny Blacksher
10 words repeated Falcon oHara
Livingston Cape Celyn Adam Day
Sigmund Freud, Action Figure Meghan Bell
common time cloud variations Rachelle Pinnow
That Night She Happened So Easy Nicomekl River Claire Matthews
Penmanship in Catholic School James Valvis
Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers Stuart A. Paterson
Certain Things You Should Know About Rusty Kathleen M. Heideman
12:33 AM What Colour is That? Mormei Zanke
Notes From a Relationship with Hades (#1) Cindy Pereira
sometimes old name warning: leaf kotasek
* (You test each hole for winter) * (Your shadow spreads across) * (Shielding your lips this stone) Simon Perchik
Indian (4) Blood Quantum (8-9) Jordan Abel
A Little Soap Work Leena Niemela
Notes From a Relationship with Hades (#1)
This prairie cold has split my lip.
My mouth tastes like metal.
You haven’t kissed me yet.
You grasp my fat white hand
in your leather-clad grip.
Your breathing is heavy.
We are only trying to drag
grocery bags loaded with
packages of raw meat uphill.
We stumble upon and swear
at patches of black ice.
Sweat trickles down my back
and warm need pools in my chest.
You haven’t kissed me yet.
My jaw clicks as our feet crunch
on dirty snow. I squeeze your fingers tight
and pray—pray for the crack-pop of broken bones.
Pray for a love less violent than our own.