WINTER 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS There’s a party in this river. Come on in and join the two-step. These currents won’t let you go.
POEM by ALYSE KNORR The aftermath of the photo-op was more complex than she originally / intended. Not surprise as in: Happy birthday we’re all here
POEM by FENG SUN CHEN I am a good person with a bad heart. / The photographer takes a picture of a thousand open refrigerators.
FICTION by ANDREW BALES With Tom I rarely use my hands. They sit on my lap at the restaurant when the check comes, they wait patiently in the living room as he scrubs algae from the fish tank, they push together in prayer when I’m at my weakest.
NEW MEDIA by ERIC LeMAY
POEM by JONO TOSCH I just popped a couple slices / of shitty white bread into the toaster.
POEM by DEREK GROMADSKI Milestones mark rove to fall-we-down / fall we… we plead / strew pleadings gutter to slip
POEM by PAULA BRANCATO EBITDA EBIT / DA EB / ITDA EBITDA / EBITDA EBIT
POEM by ANDREW GRACE I walked three miles to find / somewhere to bathe—a quarry pond / so drenched in dust that I had to ruin
FICTION by KARIN C. DAVIDSON What’s round on the ends and high in the middle? Chloe remembers only this. Her first inkling that Ohio even existed.
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