Volume 5 Number 2

Predatory

A wolf ate my hands. It should have been a Bengal tiger but was colored and sleek like a pit bull. I later felt a…

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Fragmentations of Geometric Inaccuracy

One. Shape as self-sufficient and silent, sithering and song. For one day alone, we adventured to seek for symmetry in our daily life. We stared…

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Head of the Dragon

The girl loves the plastic wrapped packages of jelly dragon heads in a fishbowl at the drugstore checkout for the same reason she loves to…

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Flutter

I stole lipsticks for my cousin, Valerie, so that she would spank me more, as I asked, as I found my eight-year old body needed…

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Confession

Do prepare to prepare to say something about the color of the leaves. The badger that lives out back. The geography of the place, or…

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Eclogue for Darkness

It began with the accident—with head scraping asphalt, with blood and confusion. Or perhaps it began earlier with promises and pheromones, in the dwindling light…

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That is That

Don’t touch that. That is a registered trademark. That requires a signature. If left on a stove or near a heat source, that may explode….

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While Listing

Every danger in this area is on the nautical chart, but still. The cat howls all night. It’s dark, and I so want to throttle…

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Marital Dispute (with Diorama)

Why always aloof? Why always early? But wait. Don’t let it fester. You want to bang me senseless! A dim clearing in the kitchen with…

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Prayer to Rorschach

Taped to the ceiling of my gynecologist’s office directly above the exam table is an intricate cut-out of the Indian elephant-headed Ganesh, his nose a…

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