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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Special thanks to Ken Daley, Chair of the Department of English; Deborah H. Holdstein, Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Louise Love, Interim Provost; and Dr. Warrick Carter, President of Columbia College Chicago. Cover art: Friends to keep you warm, #29; Izziyana Suhaimi, 2011; Embroidery and pen and paper, 30 x 40 cm. Design by Stefan Coisson, Columbia College Chicago Creative Services. ISSN: 1930-4900. Copyright © 2013 by Columbia College Chicago. All rights revert to authors upon publication. Printed in the U.S.A. EDITORS Tara Boswell Brian Miles Patti Pangborn Patrick Samuel Joshua Young EDITORIAL BOARD AmyJo Arehart John Kenneth Bishop Alyssa Davis James Eidson Tyler Cain Lacy Joseph Meads David A. Moran Chris Neely Daniel Scott Parker Victoria A. Sanz Matthew Sharos Gabrielle Faith Williams Abigail Zimmer MANAGING EDITOR Cora Jacobs FACULTY ADVISORS Cora Jacobs David Trinidad contents Kimberly Grey What We Have Lost..............................................................11 Nick Sturm At Least There Are Windmills ..............................................12 Carmen Giménez Smith Ritual ....................................................................................14 Folklore .................................................................................15 Krystal Languell Stopgap Sex Act ...................................................................16 Fashion Blast Quarter..........................................................18 Jesse Mack from Ok, Apollinarius ............................................................20 George Kalamaras The Death of Nikola Tesla....................................................21 Amnesia of the Hardboiled Detective Novel ......................22 Third Elegy ............................................................................24 Lisa Fishman Sundial .................................................................................27 Aaron Plasek # 89 ......................................................................................29 Michael Paul Thomas Movies in Childhood ............................................................30 You Dumb Fuck ....................................................................32 Robert Alan Wendeborn [XXVIII] ...................................................................................33 [XXXI] .....................................................................................34 Matthew Sharos Our Suits Lack Microphones ...............................................35 Rae Armantrout Head .....................................................................................36 End User ...............................................................................37 Houses .................................................................................39 Episodes ...............................................................................40 The New Zombie ..................................................................41 Dan Boehl Airport Poem (twitter sonnet) ..............................................43 David O’Connell When it’s her turn ................................................................44 Jill Magi Overcoding Class, Version 2 ...............................................45 Tyler Cain Lacy Sobresaturada ..........................................................................50 Heather Cox Lines Composed in a Crater ...............................................52 Earth, Pshh. .........................................................................53 Kirk Nesset Room ....................................................................................54 Molly Gaudry Iris, Christmas Eve ...............................................................55 Chas Hoppe HELP WANTED .....................................................................57 Earlier ...................................................................................59 Jerome Sala Who Will Be America’s Next Top Mannequin? ...................60 The Enterprise ......................................................................61 Stephanie Ford Settlement............................................................................62 Adam Clay Literal Sidewalk Situation....................................................63 Montreux Rotholtz Unmark.................................................................................67 Alison Cooper from The I of Emma ..............................................................68 Matthew Gilbert Pietà ...........................................................................................69 Alexis Pope All the Miles to Akron ...........................................................70 Liz Countryman Softness Bats .......................................................................71 Tony Trigilio The Orb .................................................................................73 Dr. Simon put Barney Hill under hypnosis. Barney described the humanoids. David Baker drew them. .....76 Simon Jacobs The Reverend .......................................................................78 Since .....................................................................................79 John Kenneth Bishop The good old days ................................................................80 Joyelle McSweeney Killer Whales ........................................................................81 Eric Baus from The Tranquilized Tongue The Phonetic Projector .....................................................83 The Drone’s Orbit ..............................................................83 The Moss Vulture...............................................................83 The Creature’s Eclipse ......................................................83 The Alluvial Tomb ..............................................................83 J. A. Tyler When Our Tunnel Is Built .....................................................84 Victoria A. Sanz Reassuring Ommatidia........................................................88 [the house with the red door] ..............................................89 Johannes Göransson from Haute Surveillance ......................................................90 Jacob Victorine Flammable Matter ...............................................................92 Richard Pryor .......................................................................93 James Eidson Estate ...................................................................................94 Doug Ramspeck Fish Bones ...........................................................................96 Alyssa Davis life/rite ..................................................................................97 Brian Mornar Speech .................................................................................99 Mathias Svalina from The Depression [A man opened the newspaper . .] .............................. 100 [Something is making . .] ............................................. 101 [A statue cannot tell . .] ................................................ 102 Judith Taylor Floating World ................................................................... 103 Kirsten Kaschock Shaped .............................................................................. 104 You say she is a whore ..................................................... 106 At Morris Arboretum ......................................................... 108 Sara Wainscott Hollow ................................................................................ 109 Dolly Lemke I’m so into you, Anthony Madrid ...................................... 110 I’m so into you, Nick Sturm .............................................. 111 Abigail Zimmer A Fine Line