Spring 2013 Table of Contents
Learning to Let Go by Bombadil
_____Jukebox
Think of a House by Okla Elliott
_____ The father doesn’t drink, but he used to./The mother isn’t happy, but she was
_____Poetry
Artoons by Rolli
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_____Comics
If Only I’d Thought of It by Christopher Citro
_____ Did they sit around the dinner table/ taking turns saying: “It’s a nasty habit.”
_____Poetry
Spring by Brooks Long & the Mad Dog No Good
_____Jukebox
House-Sitting, Woman in the Diorama, and Roadside by Annah Browning
_____ There is a man inside/the house, teaching/the living room how to burn.
_____Poetry
Woodley Park by Sarah Mollie Silberman
_____We joke about conventional and unconventional uses for duct tape
_____Fiction
On the Flood, Grown More Perilous by Brianna Noll
_____ We think/we want to feel/the sparks—/dive in and glow.
_____Poetry
Georgia by Channing Showalter
_____Jukebox
Woman at the Well and Listening by Meriwether Clarke
_____ My skin stretches,/holding all these pieces in
_____Poetry
Smile4Waxy by Anthony Walner
_____Some of the following is a lie. I worry I am beginning to believe it true.
_____Nonfiction
Everett by Ann Pelletier
_____ We come to the place where my son is/ and his name.
_____Poetry
An Interview with Nikky Finney by Cara Dees
_____I want to save a moment. I want to save what a sunset looks like from seat 8A on a plane.
_____Interview
I Go Like This by Dara-Lyn Shrager
_____ Somebody with ill intentions/ has come to my door.
_____Poetry
don’t be cruel by Ashley Anderson
_____Dance
Bystander’s Lament by Katy Miller
_____ I am a witness to the wars,/ a witness to the witnesses of wars,
_____Poetry
A Savior, Belief, Tupac, and Balloons by Venita Blackburn
_____Water balloon wars are primal, vicious productions.
_____Fiction
Only For You by Heartless Bastards
_____Jukebox
Elegy and Self-Portrait in Binary by P. J. Williams
_____ Through the door broken open: smoke,/ honeysuckle, ashed-over daffodils.
_____Poetry
Lesbian Cattle Dogs by Lydia Conklin
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_____Comics
Cover Art by Athena Melton