Fall 2016 The Flag Series: Fingers tracing Places of Aspiration Sukenya Best My work often involves the human figure, body pressure, and audience participation. It is propelled by a love for color and movement. These elements Fall 2016, Online Issues, Visual Art Two Poems by Sarah Bates Sarah Bates I remember myself in parts. November morning without snow. Dusty footprints, no brakes. I remember nothing. Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry Two Poems by Dorinda Wegener Dorinda Wegener If Your Family Owned a Mausoleum, then This Poem Would Make More Sense Your sisters have found corpses: beautiful one in the bath, Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry Three Poems by Michelle Lewis Michelle Lewis Animul/Flame Animul owned the sun that beat the back of the gavel-nosed deer. Around us, sweetbread mountains with their anatomical stone stone stone. Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry Rat’s Nest Monica Rico My mother said, my hair was like a rat’s nest, a rat’s nest plucked by a black capped chickadee for another nest or the Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry Two Poems by Kathryn Merwin Kathryn Merwin Body Composition You wanted me to make you art, capture the way you breathe stars from the sky, disappear into the folds of Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry Primitive Allison Thorpe Primitive Now you want to make her faceless fling the greedy spit of acid splatter domination through iris and cornea gouge socket and Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry Two Poems by Sarah Escue Sarah Escue ON NIGHTS WHEN I AM MOTHERLESS Through the limbs of an ash tree, ash filters, reminds me of the nights we watched the Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry Amputee Marissa Stephens Amputee The first time I witnessed my son’s boner, I gasped, then pretended not to see it, proceeded to help him into Spiderman Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry Two Poems by Anne Champion Anne Champion SALLY RIDE WATCHES THE CHALLENGER EXPLODE I know what it is to be boxed in hot light, ushered into more darkness, pinpricked by Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry The Healing Nidhi Singh When the half-moon, past a half night bent its light on the red-brown building,the misery, it quickened, the despair, it doubled, grim thoughts like Fall 2016, Fiction, Online Issues Traveling Alone Kate Blackwell When Patrice Hughes turned forty, her gift to herself was a week in Paris, alone. It was the Eighties, when the married women she Fall 2016, Fiction, Online Issues House Guest Annalise Mabe I saunter slowly through the aisles of annuals and poppies, past flowering cacti and tiny Christmas trees following Michaelene in the Lowe’s Garden Center Fall 2016, Nonfiction, Online Issues For Coq au Vin Judy T. Oldfield Chef’s Knife The knife shriek shriek shrieks against the rod. Fluorescent light, bouncing, highlights the grain, smearing brightness on the white subway tiles. We Fall 2016, Fiction, Online Issues Mar y Sol Raluca Ioanid Marisol’s daughter, Jaquelin, turned 19 yesterday. She and her 15-year-old brother have been pacing the pea-green fluorescent-lit hallways of the intensive care unit for Fall 2016, Fiction, Online Issues Searching for Her M.A. Jay I knew you were drunk last night. Not by the smell as much as the three times you called me beautiful. By the talk Fall 2016, Nonfiction, Online Issues Essays on Production Kristina Marie Darling I. That winter, I took up writing in an attempt to forget the countryside. My first play, carefully parsed out into eight acts, took Fall 2016, Nonfiction, Online Issues The Disappearing Woman Ellie Rogers We scrub March sludge, soak up marsh chorus in our shared porcelain tub under cloud-clad sky. We dive in to the rain-clad quarry with naked acrobats. I notice Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath Judith H. Montgomery Floating, supported in her mother’s arms, the two bodies crossed in eloquent echo. Look and look Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry
The Flag Series: Fingers tracing Places of Aspiration Sukenya Best My work often involves the human figure, body pressure, and audience participation. It is propelled by a love for color and movement. These elements Fall 2016, Online Issues, Visual Art
Two Poems by Sarah Bates Sarah Bates I remember myself in parts. November morning without snow. Dusty footprints, no brakes. I remember nothing. Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry
Two Poems by Dorinda Wegener Dorinda Wegener If Your Family Owned a Mausoleum, then This Poem Would Make More Sense Your sisters have found corpses: beautiful one in the bath, Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry
Three Poems by Michelle Lewis Michelle Lewis Animul/Flame Animul owned the sun that beat the back of the gavel-nosed deer. Around us, sweetbread mountains with their anatomical stone stone stone. Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry
Rat’s Nest Monica Rico My mother said, my hair was like a rat’s nest, a rat’s nest plucked by a black capped chickadee for another nest or the Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry
Two Poems by Kathryn Merwin Kathryn Merwin Body Composition You wanted me to make you art, capture the way you breathe stars from the sky, disappear into the folds of Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry
Primitive Allison Thorpe Primitive Now you want to make her faceless fling the greedy spit of acid splatter domination through iris and cornea gouge socket and Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry
Two Poems by Sarah Escue Sarah Escue ON NIGHTS WHEN I AM MOTHERLESS Through the limbs of an ash tree, ash filters, reminds me of the nights we watched the Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry
Amputee Marissa Stephens Amputee The first time I witnessed my son’s boner, I gasped, then pretended not to see it, proceeded to help him into Spiderman Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry
Two Poems by Anne Champion Anne Champion SALLY RIDE WATCHES THE CHALLENGER EXPLODE I know what it is to be boxed in hot light, ushered into more darkness, pinpricked by Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry
The Healing Nidhi Singh When the half-moon, past a half night bent its light on the red-brown building,the misery, it quickened, the despair, it doubled, grim thoughts like Fall 2016, Fiction, Online Issues
Traveling Alone Kate Blackwell When Patrice Hughes turned forty, her gift to herself was a week in Paris, alone. It was the Eighties, when the married women she Fall 2016, Fiction, Online Issues
House Guest Annalise Mabe I saunter slowly through the aisles of annuals and poppies, past flowering cacti and tiny Christmas trees following Michaelene in the Lowe’s Garden Center Fall 2016, Nonfiction, Online Issues
For Coq au Vin Judy T. Oldfield Chef’s Knife The knife shriek shriek shrieks against the rod. Fluorescent light, bouncing, highlights the grain, smearing brightness on the white subway tiles. We Fall 2016, Fiction, Online Issues
Mar y Sol Raluca Ioanid Marisol’s daughter, Jaquelin, turned 19 yesterday. She and her 15-year-old brother have been pacing the pea-green fluorescent-lit hallways of the intensive care unit for Fall 2016, Fiction, Online Issues
Searching for Her M.A. Jay I knew you were drunk last night. Not by the smell as much as the three times you called me beautiful. By the talk Fall 2016, Nonfiction, Online Issues
Essays on Production Kristina Marie Darling I. That winter, I took up writing in an attempt to forget the countryside. My first play, carefully parsed out into eight acts, took Fall 2016, Nonfiction, Online Issues
The Disappearing Woman Ellie Rogers We scrub March sludge, soak up marsh chorus in our shared porcelain tub under cloud-clad sky. We dive in to the rain-clad quarry with naked acrobats. I notice Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry
Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath Judith H. Montgomery Floating, supported in her mother’s arms, the two bodies crossed in eloquent echo. Look and look Fall 2016, Online Issues, Poetry
