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My Flowery Bed

by Amanda Glickman

Between the rings

by Bryce O'Tierney

Unlike the raccoon
we cannot date ourselves back
by our tails
            ringed in quiet smoke
           like the spiraling heart
           of the bristle cone pine
yet
           the conifer murmur
            rushes in our ears
rain fall
            hums on our lips
sun rise
            at the quickening pulse
            of that blinding question
are we not but brief flickerings of life?
incident rays
           skipped
across climactic cycles
It strikes you

the raccoon emerged
not to drink
                        (more…)

Fine Young Man

by Laura Jok

           The only other person in the elevator was the boy with the red plastic cup. He had drowsy amicable eyes under thick pale blond eyebrows. “You guys go here?” he asked.

           He had been looking at Maggie with those unfocused eyes, but Maggie was looking out the glass walls of the elevator as the football field shrank to the dimensions of a foosball table beneath them, and the spires of the university buildings diminished to romantic miniatures straight out (more…)