Issue 152

Summer & Fall 2017

Image from It is an Intensely Private Experience

Poetry Alison C. Rollins Poetry Alison C. Rollins

A Rock Trying to Stand

Ekphrasis after photograph bearing caption “The body of Big Foot, a chief of the

Miniconjou Sioux, lies frozen in the snow that covered the bloody battlefield at
Wounded Knee on September 29, 1890”

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Poetry Alison C. Rollins Poetry Alison C. Rollins

Public Domain

You catalog by hand, playing librarian in your dead

mother’s house. Try to justify archiving each item:

A balanced checkbook. Mothballs. Life Savers

mints. Back copies of the New York Times.

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Poetry Alison C. Rollins Poetry Alison C. Rollins

Develop the Negatives

Merriam-Webster online now tells you

the popularity of a word. “Bole” is in

the “bottom 30%.” How would that make

you feel, to know that you as a noun are

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