POETRY
Melanie Brazzell
buoyant fragments
Begin trying
William Doreski
A Novelist's Eye
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
26 Years
Musings of a Man Impelled to
Moments of Mad Wakefulness
Benjamin Nardolilli
Contra Cosmos
Caleb Puckett
Meeting by Morning
Call for Exodus
Ross White
Actaeon
A Roman
Kristine Ong
Muslim
Geek Girl
Think of me as a mixture
distilling inside a flask
which an idiot lab assistant
has labeled hope
and kept away from sight.
Or I can be the pattern
of tap water stain
in an old woman's tub--
yellow drips frozen
over white--
harmless, uncomplicated
yet you can smell words
on my skin, taste the songs
in my head.
Think of me as a mixture
distilling inside a flask
which an idiot lab assistant
has labeled hope
and kept away from sight.
Or I can be the pattern
of tap water stain
in an old woman's tub--
yellow drips frozen
over white--
harmless, uncomplicated
yet you can smell words
on my skin, taste the songs
in my head.
Kristine Ong Muslim
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