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Contributions by Rachel Barenblat

KNOWLEDGE, THRESHOLD

KNOWLEDGE

I knew
but I didn’t want to know
I turned away from knowing
I pretended I was fine

I put myself to bed
whispering
please let it be all right
please let it be all right

such uneasy sleep» Continue reading

LUNAR ECLIPSE, TZAV PANTOUM

LUNAR ECLIPSE

When first I lower my body
hot water scalds my skin.

Once my glasses have fogged
I scuff my feet into stolen slippers

and wrench the glass door open.
The sky is pricked with lights

around the red alien moon.» Continue reading

Issue 4 contents

Fiction
- LAKE CHRISTINE
- by Jay Kauffmann
- Papier-mâché
- by Zoe Smith
- The Secret at the Center
- by Khristian Mecom
- Spies
- by Sally Bunch
Non-fiction
- The Icicle
- by Amber Foster
- The European Schedule
- by Jane Hertenstein
- Feedback
- by Joel Wool
Poetry
- The Shirt
- by Buff Whitman-Bradley
- It’s True About Owls, Monday Morning
- by Carolyn Scarbrough
- Three Poems
- by Rebecca Kinzie Bastian
- The Lies, Example for Restraint
- by Russell Evatt
- Tonight, They Say, Later, Jenni
- by Amanda Skjeveland
Postcards
- The Price of Humidity
- by Marc Vincenz
- The Art of Respiration
- by Carolyn Scarbrough
- I Want to Write You Some Sort of Love Letter
- by Rebecca Kinzie Bastian
- Of the Past, I Have Only Hints
- by Russell Evatt
- Peonies
- by Carolyn Scarbrough
- Pinned to my Jacket, a Note from Sonja
- by John Lowry
- The Cove
- by Philip Arnold
- Landloved
- by Marc Vincenz
- Going for Bones
- by Cynthia Reeser
- Battenkill
- by Peter Weltner
- Scar Tissue
- by David H. Brantley
- Blackbird at Dusk
- by Janice D. Soderling
Translation
- Free Swedish Haiku VI.
- by Daniel Gahnertz
- Free Swedish Haiku V.
- by Lars Granström
- Free Swedish Haiku III.
- by Iréne Carlsson
- Free Swedish Haiku IV.
- by Jörgen Johansson
On writing
- The Arcing Crystals
- by M.J. Nicholls

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