Summer 2015 “Waltzing out of it, in oyster silk” / Langdon House Katie Hogan My sleeves are an open tin. I mean it like it is — like it sounds. You wouldn’t even recognize me: opera-length, quellazaire held like a spear held Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015 sound of chromosomes Jennifer MacBain-Stephens No matter how hard one tries to expel nomenclature, the minor keys linger in all-night gas stations. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015 In sleep, an event must make our forgetting Jane Lewty Elsewhere I was a daughter, I was a mother, I was either/or. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015 The Way Your Husband Walks Beside You Sophia Galifianakis The doctor asks, were you blue as death or infancy? Metal on flame and bearing it or mad, embracing it, I say. Without praise. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015 Ink-stone Loretta Oleck you are a brush of calligraphy sweeping designs across my belly ink splattering circles and symbols like a string of black lipped oyster pearls strewn Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015 I Don’t Understand a Thing About Family Heirlooms Meg Eden Kuyatt She holds it out for me to touch, and as if I’m unsure that the death is fully removed from that chain, I touch Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015 My Sister’s Hands / My Son Confesses Madelyn Garner Thickened calluses. One finger crippled to quarter moon, and the index, childhood impaled, bearing jagged scars. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015 10 Ways to Get Her Denise Duhamel + Julie Marie Wade You should ask yourself: do you really want to get a woman like this? Do you really want to get/win her? Do you really Nonfiction, Online Issues, Summer 2015 Death of the Little Self Molly Sutton Kiefer There are no I’s in these poems / there are only eyes in these poems. My gaze is exact, though my reliance is on Nonfiction, Online Issues, Summer 2015 Boob Party Jenny A. Burkholder Immediately, I knew I had made the wrong choice. My own need for transparency and truthfulness had not taken into consideration their potential for Nonfiction, Online Issues, Summer 2015 Forgiveness / Hurry, Love Melanie Figg Did you think your hand could rearrange the world with no consequence? That I’m just some damn doll, some pupa, sold on not eating? Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015 The Writer’s Wife carly gates How must she have felt, their second child thrashing inside of her—did she already agree with him that her happiness lay in sleep? In dreaming of lying Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015 Requiem / Take Your Daughter to Work Michelle Brown Later that Crayola morning, Wonder Woman coloring book and a stack of DC Comics spread across the black soapstone counter in her lab, her fascination with cells Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015 Emily and the Red Snow / Emily and the Threshers Stephanie Dickinson The men know the truth of twine, cut and tie, chaff and straw, the bundles shat and separated. In the yellow air visions Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015 The revolution in my blood. / Foreign Aurora Masum-Javed I only asked my mother about the war once. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015 Instructions for the Twenty-Seventh Year Caitlin Scarano Matchbox triptych: a parrot with human teeth, a man with a mouthful of blue rubies, and a faceless child drinking from a river running backwards. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015 Via Lido and the Sky Woman Karen An-hwei Lei I look at the names of boats -- a misplaced list. Only remember the word, naught. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015 Artist Feature: Stephen Skowron Stephen Skowron Selections of digital photography from the installation “Transmutation"—Stephen Skowron (with Stephanie Booth). Online Issues, Summer 2015, Visual Art Metallic / Unicorn Motherfucker Brynne Rebele-Henry Every day is a Friday we say before the aftermath and chocolate kisses on her thighs, The rotting lemons pimped out suns that don’t orbit. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015 to my my first boyfriend / boyfriend, Melanie Batchelor your mouth was the town i grew up in, my adolescent experiences wedged between your teeth. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015 Endlessly Repeating Rachel Martin Slowly and deliberately, her lips began to move. Soft words fell from her mouth and were cast out to sea by the deafening sound Fiction, Online Issues, Summer 2015 Blood Flows Upstream Lise Lacasse, J.T. Townley (translator) Don’t just stand there in the doorway. Come in! I told Suzanne you could visit because I’d like to talk to you about something. Fiction, Online Issues, Summer 2015 The Derailment of the Mikado Dawn Newton Ten minutes before the program was scheduled to begin, the Mikado rested on its side—black, sleek, and quiet. The technician stood on a stool, Fiction, Online Issues, Summer 2015
“Waltzing out of it, in oyster silk” / Langdon House Katie Hogan My sleeves are an open tin. I mean it like it is — like it sounds. You wouldn’t even recognize me: opera-length, quellazaire held like a spear held Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015
sound of chromosomes Jennifer MacBain-Stephens No matter how hard one tries to expel nomenclature, the minor keys linger in all-night gas stations. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015
In sleep, an event must make our forgetting Jane Lewty Elsewhere I was a daughter, I was a mother, I was either/or. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015
The Way Your Husband Walks Beside You Sophia Galifianakis The doctor asks, were you blue as death or infancy? Metal on flame and bearing it or mad, embracing it, I say. Without praise. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015
Ink-stone Loretta Oleck you are a brush of calligraphy sweeping designs across my belly ink splattering circles and symbols like a string of black lipped oyster pearls strewn Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015
I Don’t Understand a Thing About Family Heirlooms Meg Eden Kuyatt She holds it out for me to touch, and as if I’m unsure that the death is fully removed from that chain, I touch Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015
My Sister’s Hands / My Son Confesses Madelyn Garner Thickened calluses. One finger crippled to quarter moon, and the index, childhood impaled, bearing jagged scars. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015
10 Ways to Get Her Denise Duhamel + Julie Marie Wade You should ask yourself: do you really want to get a woman like this? Do you really want to get/win her? Do you really Nonfiction, Online Issues, Summer 2015
Death of the Little Self Molly Sutton Kiefer There are no I’s in these poems / there are only eyes in these poems. My gaze is exact, though my reliance is on Nonfiction, Online Issues, Summer 2015
Boob Party Jenny A. Burkholder Immediately, I knew I had made the wrong choice. My own need for transparency and truthfulness had not taken into consideration their potential for Nonfiction, Online Issues, Summer 2015
Forgiveness / Hurry, Love Melanie Figg Did you think your hand could rearrange the world with no consequence? That I’m just some damn doll, some pupa, sold on not eating? Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015
The Writer’s Wife carly gates How must she have felt, their second child thrashing inside of her—did she already agree with him that her happiness lay in sleep? In dreaming of lying Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015
Requiem / Take Your Daughter to Work Michelle Brown Later that Crayola morning, Wonder Woman coloring book and a stack of DC Comics spread across the black soapstone counter in her lab, her fascination with cells Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015
Emily and the Red Snow / Emily and the Threshers Stephanie Dickinson The men know the truth of twine, cut and tie, chaff and straw, the bundles shat and separated. In the yellow air visions Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015
The revolution in my blood. / Foreign Aurora Masum-Javed I only asked my mother about the war once. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015
Instructions for the Twenty-Seventh Year Caitlin Scarano Matchbox triptych: a parrot with human teeth, a man with a mouthful of blue rubies, and a faceless child drinking from a river running backwards. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015
Via Lido and the Sky Woman Karen An-hwei Lei I look at the names of boats -- a misplaced list. Only remember the word, naught. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015
Artist Feature: Stephen Skowron Stephen Skowron Selections of digital photography from the installation “Transmutation"—Stephen Skowron (with Stephanie Booth). Online Issues, Summer 2015, Visual Art
Metallic / Unicorn Motherfucker Brynne Rebele-Henry Every day is a Friday we say before the aftermath and chocolate kisses on her thighs, The rotting lemons pimped out suns that don’t orbit. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015
to my my first boyfriend / boyfriend, Melanie Batchelor your mouth was the town i grew up in, my adolescent experiences wedged between your teeth. Online Issues, Poetry, Summer 2015
Endlessly Repeating Rachel Martin Slowly and deliberately, her lips began to move. Soft words fell from her mouth and were cast out to sea by the deafening sound Fiction, Online Issues, Summer 2015
Blood Flows Upstream Lise Lacasse, J.T. Townley (translator) Don’t just stand there in the doorway. Come in! I told Suzanne you could visit because I’d like to talk to you about something. Fiction, Online Issues, Summer 2015
The Derailment of the Mikado Dawn Newton Ten minutes before the program was scheduled to begin, the Mikado rested on its side—black, sleek, and quiet. The technician stood on a stool, Fiction, Online Issues, Summer 2015
