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FALL 2013 ISSUE


GOATS UAE by Baxter Jackson

GOATS UAE by Baxter Jackson



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by Simon Perchik

To clear your lips —a simple wipe
though once spread out
your sleeve fills with shoreline

follows on its own, washed
with enormous wings
shaken off the stale crumbs

half sand, half seabirds
half before each meal
—you don’t use spoons

they won't resist enough
would empty the way this bowl
is still looking for what will pour

easily through your heart
letting it drip and for hours
one arm circles the other

closer and closer, the one
that will stay with you forever
—always the wide, lower and lower

reaching in —your mouth
no longer clears the rim
broken open by its cry

to jump! and you bleed
again from your arms letting go
their dead breeze, dead sky, dead mouth.





LADY OF ALBANY by Allyson Seconds

LADY OF ALBANY by Allyson Seconds



NEAR THE SEA
by Samantha Seto

All is purplish-blue:
at heavy surface of the sea,
as tides swell and turnover.
Opaque water lines the green benches
the lobster pots, scattered sea lions
among the wild jagged rocks.

The beach shore has translucence
like the small old buildings with emerald moss
growing on their veined walls.

The big fish tubs are lined
with layers of beautiful herring mermaid scales,
wheelbarrows are plastered with red paint
holding creamy coats of mail,
small black flies crawling in salt on them.

On the hill behind the houses,
in the bright sprinkle of mildew on grass,
is an ancient wooden ship-wheel,
cracked, with two long bleached handles
and some melancholy stains, like dried blood,
where the ironwork has rusted.











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