CONTENTS

Masthead

Donors/Benefactors

Editor's Note

Poetry

Rebecca Aronson
Drew Blanchard
Myron Ernst
Adam Ferrari
Carrie Green
Angie Macri
Christiaan Sabatelli
Sarah J. Sloat
Lindsay Marianna Walker
Mark Wisniewski

Fiction

Daniel Browne
Michael Gavaghen
Matthew Hobson
Shelagh Shapiro

Nonfiction

Bill Capossere

Interview

Henry Rollins
Alison Smith

Art & Photography

Gary Lanier
Jarod Rosselo
Heather Whitman

Book Reviews

Atmospheric Disturbances
Our Keen Blue House

Contributor's Notes

 

Commodities

Sarah J. Sloat

Hurricanes outstrip the season; rains arrive replete with rusted spores, loose suitcases of storm. The crop comes in, declared stillborn. Sweet crude, palm oil, how much will we need to keep us warm? It’s not the dearth that makes me bitter. The wick works down. The wind is not tempered to the shorn. Copper gleams and nickel glimmers; the glint of minerals grows worn. We wade into the burning lake, a kiln, and let the strata form.