Autumn 2022
9 Inside…
Poetry:
Yahrzeit &
Meditation at North Beach Park, Burlington
by Anne Whitehouse
The Hair Poem: a Haibun &
The Wax Poem
by Andy Winter
Mother’s Day, Register 7
by William Bonfiglio
Flash Nonfiction
Mutation of a Body
by Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
The Reason You’re Wrong About Wearing Shoes in the House
by Mathew Serback
NONFiction
Explication Of My Guilt
by Jessica Pulver
Failure
by Lauren Davenport
Flash Fiction
Where
by Rhea Bryce
Ersatz Coffee
by Ernie Sadashige
FICTION
Let It Burn
by Noelle Nori
Take Your Shot
by Briana Wipf
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from the archives:
Summer Elegy II by Todd Robinson
Summer Elegy II | Todd Robinson Nebraska’s bare branchespaw at skies full of pointless blue, mercurial daymoon.Powerless like me or my disabled wifewobbling our broken palace in cashmere and bracken. She…
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Backwards and Blind by Helyn Trickey Bradley
Backwards and Blind | Helyn Trickey Bradley Grief has made me a morning person. It shakes me awake at three a.m and whispers with a hoarse voice into my ear. …
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dear sister by Sequoia Maner
dear sister | Sequoia Maner i’d like to think we never experienced a world where foster care fostered absence. we went to the roller rink for birthdays. later we…
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Street People – Portraits of the Opioid Crisis by Sally Quon
Street People – Portraits of the Opioid Crisis | Sally Quon “Marianna”Marianna is on the street tonight. She has a bed, but there are times when her psychosis is too…
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What They Carried With Them by Ellen June Wright
What They Carried With Them | Ellen June Wright They carried everything one can bring when one can bring nothing.They carried everything they knew: languages and dialects, songs mothers taught themas…
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