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

Interviews

Henry Rollins
Alison Smith

Art & Photography

Gary Lanier
Jarod Rosselo
Heather Whitman

Book Reviews

Atmospheric Disturbances
Our Keen Blue House

Contributor's Notes

 

The Piano Keys Confess

Lindsay Marianna Walker

We’re in love with Ace, the janitor. He makes our backs arch when he strokes us with a damp cloth, solutions of warm water, flecks of mild scented soap. His fingers remind us of applause. Sometimes he slips us into his breast pocket like packs of gum. His heart, the drum in a stand-up bass, all the love we need. Sometimes we cry when he forgets to put us back. Sometimes we follow him under the stairs.