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Undress by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
There’s no way to turn off the days’ lengthening, no way to stop the gnats gathering like dust against the backdoor or the late moths stacked around the porch light’s slanted shine. This is the season that loses night, an outgrown black sleeve showing off a pallid wrist. It arrives stinking of new weeds and frog spawn. You can't resist the bob and blow of its standard weathers, the breeze and shower that decorate its branches with dogwood blossom, its sodden soil with tulip and

Summer 2017Issue 1: Summer 2017

Pierced by Zeek Taylor
April 1972: I was back home at my parent’s house for Spring break from the Memphis College of Art when I noticed the strange looking gold hoops lying on the sink in the bathroom. They were perfectly round, about the size of a nickel, with an opening that had a gold ball on one end and a very sharp point on the other end of the loop. Next to the hoops was an instruction pamphlet that read: place the earrings on the lobe, leave in place and the earrings will self-pierce in a matter of weeks. I the

Subtext by William Bernhardt
In this distance-learning class I have sixteen students from seven separate schools and of those eager, energetic souls four are named Caitlyn (Kaitlyn/Kaitlin/Katelyn). Statistically speaking, this means 25% of the class is named Caitlyn. And each of them spells it differently. I am reduced to calling on Kaitlin from Guthrie, or Caitlyn in Choctaw. But in my mind I’m hearing Kaitlyn, the Amazon Warrior Caitlyn, Assassin of the Cult of the Red Scimitars Kaitlyn Who Must Be Obeyed,

Undress by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
There’s no way to turn off the days’ lengthening, no way to stop the gnats gathering like dust against the backdoor or the late moths stacked around the porch light’s slanted shine. This is the season that loses night, an outgrown black sleeve showing off a pallid wrist. It arrives stinking of new weeds and frog spawn. You can't resist the bob and blow of its standard weathers, the breeze and shower that decorate its branches with dogwood blossom, its sodden soil with tulip and

Pierced by Zeek Taylor
April 1972: I was back home at my parent’s house for Spring break from the Memphis College of Art when I noticed the strange looking gold hoops lying on the sink in the bathroom. They were perfectly round, about the size of a nickel, with an opening that had a gold ball on one end and a very sharp point on the other end of the loop. Next to the hoops was an instruction pamphlet that read: place the earrings on the lobe, leave in place and the earrings will self-pierce in a matter of weeks. I the

Subtext by William Bernhardt
In this distance-learning class I have sixteen students from seven separate schools and of those eager, energetic souls four are named Caitlyn (Kaitlyn/Kaitlin/Katelyn). Statistically speaking, this means 25% of the class is named Caitlyn. And each of them spells it differently. I am reduced to calling on Kaitlin from Guthrie, or Caitlyn in Choctaw. But in my mind I’m hearing Kaitlyn, the Amazon Warrior Caitlyn, Assassin of the Cult of the Red Scimitars Kaitlyn Who Must Be Obeyed,

Undress by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
There’s no way to turn off the days’ lengthening, no way to stop the gnats gathering like dust against the backdoor or the late moths stacked around the porch light’s slanted shine. This is the season that loses night, an outgrown black sleeve showing off a pallid wrist. It arrives stinking of new weeds and frog spawn. You can't resist the bob and blow of its standard weathers, the breeze and shower that decorate its branches with dogwood blossom, its sodden soil with tulip and

About the South

Little Boy Bluet

Pierced

Silent Night

On the Road with Emily

Arkansas Haikus

The Anniversary Gift

Shock and Aphonia

Snow White

Beaver Lake in Winter

Ice Cream in Heaven

Subtext

The Aerie

Blossom

Talon

The Mall Teaser's Flamingo

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