Issue 152

Summer & Fall 2017

Image from It is an Intensely Private Experience

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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Poetry Stevie Edwards Poetry Stevie Edwards

Some Things We Carried

We carried twenty-eight days of pills in small plastic dials. We

carried the dates of our last periods. We carried lipsticks and

pressed powder compacts. We carried self-defense-kitty key chains

like darling brass knuckles. Sometimes we carried keys to

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