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Summer 2015: Poetry


Lot's Wife

A reflexive pivot then
she caught the conflagration:
orange and black, orange and black.
Sand filled in around her feet
on the path out from the city,
meditating with her as she imagined
her daughters and their babies
screaming as they blistered, choked and died.
 
She couldn’t take another step. 
The sand cooled into a glass quilt 
as tears washed the soot from her face
then dried, and streamed again then dried.
 
Her heart, an ingot of lead
and brine, anchored her to a road
that would’ve led her away
from the wreckage of her kitchen —
its grain and oils, her garden and friends;
her whole life to that moment reduced to coals.
 
This grief of hers, treason
to a man who hid behind virgins.
Men are cowards.
Angels, no better.          




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LETTER FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR

POETRY

        One Gd At A Time
 by Stephanie Glazier

        Gotcha by Darla Mottram

        It's Ok To Be A Waterfall by Darla Mottram

        Lot's Wife by Cindy St. Onge

        Sailor by Sarah Bokich

        Six More Weeks by Sarah Borsten

        Here. Now. by Emily Ransdell

        My Water Children by Emily Ransdell

        Upon Finding the House Where Cousin Viola Lived During the Holocaust by Marilyn Johnston

        Pornography by Tammy Robacker

        Attention by Juleen Johnson

        Levine Under Erasure by Juleen Johnson

        Chief Joseph's Flute by Stella Jeng Guillory

        Communion by Livia Montana

        The Stars in Your Voice by Cindy Hines

        How I Wasted My Life by Nancy Flynn

PROSE

        The Honor of Armadillos by B.E. Scully

        Basket of Shells by Joanna Rose

        How to Cure Cancer by Susan Fleming

        Nobody by Judith Pulman

        Concentric by Susan DeFreitas

ART

        Exoskeleton by Rachel Mulder

        Give Up the Queen and Nobody Gets Hurt by Rachel Mulder

        Give Up the Queen and Nobody Gets Hurt (detail) by Rachel Mulder

        Put Me in Your Blue Skies by S. Tudyk

        Time Grows Over Memories by S. Tudyk

        Untitled Work in Paper by S. Tudyk

        Mamas Day by Diana Bustos

        Untitled by Diana Bustos

        Release by Diana Bustos

YOUNG VOICES

        Somewhere by Danrong Wang

        Runner by Sara Reed

        Charcoal by Meghana Mysore

        Infinite Ink by Meghana Mysore

        Home by Kate Pippenger

CONTRIBUTORS