Fall 2011 Table of Contents
A Word for Berryman by Paul Allen
_____Dog tired, suisired, a thing so heavy–/ I doubt leapt, jumped, throw les mots juste/
_____for his worn doing.
Stray Dog Prayers by Ryan Smith
_____it smells of a city built in the rain,/ of candle light in a goldenrod coffin.
Juniper by Y La Bamba
_____Acoustic/Folk
Mandolin in White Wood, Inlay by Joshua Brown
_____With the double barrel breached/ amid the honeysuckle,/ his trigger finger cracks
Turquoise Balloons by Marmalakes
_____Folk/Pop
Lazarus, To a Predator, and For My Brother by David McLoghlin
_____One by one, old men take him by both wrists/ and are unable to speak;
The Eagle Has Conjured Itself into a Dry Leaf Floating in the Wind by Rick Pechous
_____I woke Ira and told him we had to run. Our car was locked outside the gate—a telltale sign of the _____presence of junkies when they come to open it. The sun hadn’t yet cleared the tops of the trees.
Like A Promethean Curse by VGE
ESP by Hooded Fang
_____Indie/Pop
Rural Causality by Weston Cutter
_____The rorschach of a Thursday, how god /in certain ruralities is what elsewhere/
_____would be called weather
Schtick by Phantom Power
_____Modern/Indie
The Sirens by Tyler Mills
_____Pilot whales beach their black bodies/
on sandbars off the Cape. With my grandparents//
_____I watched them dying on TV in August
Things That Sublimate in the Night by Mike Peterson
_____I work the midnight shift as an emergency dispatcher in the basement of the superior courthouse
Cathode Ray by Blonde Summer
_____Indie/Rock
Joe Cuomo, Local Weatherman, Tests The Old Idea Of Heaven by Sean Bishop
_____That the day before my father’s death// was National Skinny Dipping Day,/ Filet
_____Mignon Day, and Left Hander’s Day.
Screws Get Loose by Those Darlins
_____Indie/Punk
Litany by Rachael Lyon
_____She thought this place was haunted before/ his mouth snuffed voices into nothing, wet fingers/
_____on a burning wick.
Sea Dreamer by Wildlife
_____Indie/Rock
Idyll, Prayer Handles, and Quart of View by Erin Radcliffe
_____Rind and yolk freefall, infuriating/ the gluttony of birds to brine
Girls Like Me by TV Girl
_____Post-Modern/Pop
A Bomb, an Egg, and Anne Bradstreet’s Lover by Katie Williams
_____No. It’s not like that. The bomb is not meant for a fetid corner in this high-school classroom
Black Witch Moth by Phillip Williams
_____The moth lifts its dress and everything beneath/ its hem’s shadow sings
Upon the morning of the spring equinox I steal precisely ten words from John Berryman by Alice George
_____When the starlings finish drinking from the gutters/ their bodies will be slightly heavier.
Cover Art by Ryder Richards