ISSUE I
a note from the editor
In the beginning there were things.
Rocks, mountains, branches and leaves.
And then a child breathing.
Along came the buzzing bees. And the child followed the bees and the bees led it to a door made of stone. The door was so
heavy that the child couldn’t open it. And so
the child decided to leave.
When one of the bees visited the child, the child lured it inside its mouth. And as it closed its mouth the buzzing stopped. The bee tried to sting the child’s skin to get out. Unsuccessfully.
And so the bee decided to live for a while in the insides of the child’s body until a while became a day and the day became a night and they all became an ever.
(And die there forever.)
The child worked its hands
and used spit to make clay
and build vaults where it hid
a mountain, a branch, a leaf and a bee.
A Reasonable Investment
EUGENE POLONSKY
A plane to Taiwan
TOM PESCATORE
4 Poems from Jabobo the Turko: A Novel in Verse
PHILLIP BANNOWSKY
Numbered days. That’s something
All Species Meet Their End
EVA FERRY
From Leonardo’s Notebook on Perspective of Disappearance
WILLIAM DORESKI
Like Exploded Speech Balloons
WILLIAM DORESKI
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ANDREA MOORHEAD
My Badly Cut Thumb
MARILYN CAVICCHIA
Phenomenology vs. Logical Positivism
ALAN BRITT
political dialogue i
ELISABETH BLAIR
If Charles Bukowski visited Bloomfield or other Pittsburgh neighborhoods
JANETTE SCHAFER
The Jerusalem Temple
BRANDON MARLON
From Leonardo’s Philosophy of the Art of Painting
WILLIAM DORESKI
Running on Fumes
WILLIAM DORESKI
BBC Book Club 8/22/2016
R. BREMNER
Fifth Grade
JUDY SHEPPS BATTLE
(Im)possible sufferings
CHANG WEN
14 Adam Drive, Singapore – a pantoum
AMY BASKIN
father and son lighting candles in a Beirut church
JOELLE REBEIZ
Leonardo on the Proportions of the Human Figure
WILLIAM DORESKI
Principal Beauty
WILLIAM DORESKI
Desire at the End of a Day
AHMET HAŞIM
(trans. by DONNY SMITH)
riding dark horse nightmare
JOAN McNERNEY
The Hat From Hell
DREW PISARRA
political dialogue ii
ELISABETH BLAIR
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
ACE BOGGESS
appear to her as a series of images retracing
SPYROS KAZANTZIS
Graveyard Stomps & Funeral Rags
HOWIE GOOD
Without a rearview mirror
ANDREA MOORHEAD