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..:: CONTENTS ::..

�� Volume VII, Issue II

..:: POETRY ::..

  • Ed Steck
  • Iain Britton
  • J.D. Nelson
  • Adam Strauss
  • John M. Bennett

  • ..:: PROSE ::..
    ..:: OTHER ::..

    ..:: ETC ::..
    �� Contributor's Notes

    ..:: ARCHIVES ::..
    �� Volume I, Issue I
    �� Volume I, Issue II
    �� Volume II, Issue I
    �� Volume II, Issue II
    �� Volume III, Issue I
    �� Volume III, Issue II
    �� Volume IV, Issue I

    �� Volume IV, Issue II
    �� Volume V, Issue I
    �� Volume V, Issue II
    �� Volume VI, Issue I
    �� Volume VI, Issue II
    �� Volume VII, Issue I

    Poetry


    Lovers I
    Emily Gilbert

    We rub two coins together and try to start fires. We plant
    the thin discs in fertile soil and sing s�ances over half-
    corpses, try to animate seeds and the desiring conjure. We
    wail, beat our breasts. Sun slants into metal; the rays crease
    into cool skin and thus soothe like a searing poultice. The
    glint consumes, the blasphemies glitter out from spider
    holes and so the louder sings. We sway. Light behind
    pewter clouds breaks loose, flocks of crystallized amber
    pound down upon our upraising—we root, sprouts bitter.
    We accuse, break our halves in whole, and still we smell no
    smoke. Feign diamonds in the detritus, press paper out of
    stirring. A heart, and open, won't you hear me? We gauze
    over faces, but mouths are too far apart. Air in tattered
    sheets, our jury sleeps, and home so walks with blistered
    hands.

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