The September swelter fell upon the woods unexpectedly, and the man who found it picked it up and said, “Now what the hell is this thing?” The scientists said: “Put that down.” “You don’t know where it’s been.” One of them looked like his mother, white coat out of season, thick safety goggles, finely-trimmed mustache. …
COVER
Le Baiser du lait D’oubli | CENDRINE ROVINI
FICTION
Wild Things | ANITA FELICELLI
FRANZ KAFKA AWARD IN MAGIC REALISM
1st Place | Dream State, MARK JACOBS
2nd Place | Empty Spaces, STEPHANIE FRAZEE
3rd Place | Mothers | CARMEN MACHADO
POETRY
7 Poems | KRISTINA MARIE DARLING
NONFICTION
Diss Leave | LYNDEE YAMSHON
GALLERY
Anima Mundi | CENDRINE ROVINI
Mother May I? | RAE BRYANT
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Kristina Marie Darling is the author of over twenty collections of poetry. Her awards include two Yaddo residencies, a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, and a Visiting Artist Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, as well as grants from the Whiting Foundation and Harvard University’s Kittredge Fund. She is currently working toward both a Ph.D. in English Literature at S.U.N.Y.-Buffalo and an M.F.A. in Poetry at New York University.
Sand fleas leap the sunset where Carmaggeden occupies the freeway. On the muddy banks of the Mississippi, we slip mickeys to bums on benches. Pop and I: waxing life in the freight yard, where barley stinks like wet dog food,And where we tag dumpsters, stare up at the Arch, that gleaming frown, and ask“Who am …
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