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MANAGING EDITOR Cora Jacobs EDITORS Stevie Curl Zachary Green Dolly Lemke Kyle Miner Steve Smaczniak Abi Stokes Chris Williams EDITORIAL BOARD Jeffrey Allen Joseph Andert Stephen Danos Sarah Elliott Hafizah Geter Sarah Jedd Sara Oster Kat Sanchez CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Thom DeRoma Richard Dugan FACULTY ADVISOR David Trinidad contents Sandra Lim Now, Voyager ......................................................................11 Jan Beatty Driving While Wet ...............................................................12 My Sister as Moving Object ...............................................14 Hideaki Noguchi Apolysis ...............................................................................16 Big Future ............................................................................17 To Brain ...............................................................................18 Jason Bredle The Penguin Chronicles .....................................................20 Jordan Davis Eight Goats and a Grapefruit .............................................21 Michael Robins In Kentucky Our Families Grieve .......................................22 In the Manner of All Such Disasters ..................................23 Jeffrey Allen cloudtrigger .........................................................................24 Amaranth Borsuk Dear Sore ............................................................................26 Quince: An Era ....................................................................27 Christopher DeWeese Heart of 5000 Bear ...........................................................28 King Tut ...............................................................................30 Izzy Oneiric The White Dwarf Is Not Only Radiant, but Rings ..............32 To Cause Defendant to Sell Drugs in This State, Breniman Kept Changing the Destination ....................33 Diego Báez Himmelblau ........................................................................34 Anne Boyer from The Two Thousands ....................................................35 Heather Christle Earth Is the Clock’s Moving Part .......................................38 Self-Portrait with Fire ..........................................................39 Kat Sanchez Control Burn ........................................................................40 Claire Donato Introduction to a Visibly Heterosexual Relationship ........42 Kristin Ravel Pond Near Mill ....................................................................43 Learning about Death and Doornails ...............................44 Alice Notley In This Villain Story .............................................................45 Sean Kilpatrick LaVey ...................................................................................47 Sam Pink Self-Inflicted Contraceptive Idea........................................48 I Still Have All My Teeth, Homey ........................................50 Suzanne Buffam On the Color White .............................................................51 Holly Amos with a poet’s belly ...............................................................52 Travis Macdonald from The O Mission Repo [Vol. 2] .......................................54 A. Minetta Gould Wally’s New Lover Asks about Egon ..................................56 Reclined & Disrobing ..........................................................57 Kelsey Wright GOD If I Show Up at Your Place Can I Sleep? ....................58 Justin Petropoulos [debt letter with orange peels] ...........................................61 James Shea Poem by Tolstoy ..................................................................62 Lindsay Daigle Sarai’s Survival Kit .............................................................63 Stephen Danos Animal Transfer ...................................................................64 Comatose Crust ..................................................................65 Steve Roggenbuck an abstract .........................................................................66 i go into a field of flower bushes with my dad’s car. .........67 Daniel Borzutzky Resuscitation ......................................................................68 Zachary Schomburg Breath-Holding Championship ..........................................73 Lake .....................................................................................74 Carl Aagesen Epithalamion ......................................................................75 Dora Malech The End ...............................................................................76 Simone Muench Self-Portrait with Pistol .......................................................77 Parker Smathers Self-Birthday Card ..............................................................78 Get on Board the Sixties ....................................................80 Get on Board the Seventies ...............................................82 Andrew Terhune Jeff Bridges ..........................................................................83 Sweeping the Corners ........................................................84 Gregory Sherl I’ve seen enough movies to know how to love .................87 Jared Stanley Earthly Travel ......................................................................88 Todd McCarty Weekly Outlook ...................................................................90 Karyna McGlynn Michael Chabon (American Author, 1963-) .....................91 One little person gets shot at the RV park ........................92 Alan Michael Parker Science Fiction ...................................................................93 Zachary Green A Solar Storm in the Cockpit ..............................................94 I Could Not Eat the TV Dinner Dessert ..............................96 Kelly Forsythe On the First Warm Day My Sister and I Drive to the Pool .......................................................................97 K. Silem Mohammad from The Sonnagrams ........................................................98 Juliet Cook Nellie Oleson Compares Me to Her .................................100 Matt Reeck Frame of Reference ..........................................................101 Colleen O’Connor Shotgun.............................................................................103 Amber Nelson from The Tesla Files: Autobiography ................................104 Zach Kolodjeski Re-Reading the Last Page of a Novel Aloud ....................109 In Response to Fears of a Four or Five Month Draught ....111 Amanda A. Abraham Friday, April Thirteenth .....................................................113 Mathias Svalina I Want to Talk with You about Some Totemic Ghosts Hovering & Stacking ........................................114 Eric Unger River Rumination on the Meaning of Silence Passed ....115 David Dodd Lee In the Fine Time of Warriors .............................................117 Jeremy Schmall “The lesson remains:” ......................................................119 Rodrigo Toscano from Eight Views from a Corner of the New Open World .............................................................................120