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January 2014

Jessie Mott, "Janet," 2013
 
  • Leah Umansky
  • Adrian Matejka
  • Amy King
  • Idra Novey
  • Adam Fitzgerald
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From this Issue

Poem
A man is only worth what people say he is
and those Starks are good stock. They’ll knee-deep it.
They famish the craving they are fathered by.
Manning the forestry of life, they are steadfast and sturdy.

When pungent or cruel, they sauce the...
Poem
That was the week
            it didn’t stop snowing.

That was the week
             five-fingered trees fell

             on houses & power lines
             broke like somebody waiting

for payday in a snowstorm.
That snow week, my daughter

& I...
Poem
This is what it sounds like outside,
fat geese and guinea hens holding hands.
I am 31, which is very young for my age.
That is enough to realize I’m a pencil that has learned
how to draw the Internet. I explain squiggles
diagramming...
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