Contents
poem for god
Casandra Robledo
The Woman in Silent Tears
Sony Ton-Amie
Division
Jenna Citrus
Passing Through
Marissa Kopco
Signifying Antipathy
Eric Kubacki
Perejil
Sony Ton-Amie
Macromicro
Abbey Kish
Amish Country
A.J. Weber
everything beautiful bleeds
Casandra Robledo
5 August 2014
Emily Gadzinksi
Indulgences
Marcee Wardell
Et in Arcadio Ego
David Albert Solberg
Stuttgart Triptych
Abbey Kish
Debbie
Katie Cross
Sorry, We're Closed
Marissa Kopco
Older than Our Bodies
A.J. Weber
Take Me With You When
You Go
Lindsay Hansard
The Great Conversation: Cultural Change Through YouTube
Zoe Comingore
Amorphous Object &
Papered Wall
Jenna Citrus
Sundays in Hudson
Jamie Brian
Emily
Joseph Theis
Fox and Geese
Deborah Rocheleau
Virtue
Kara Wellman
SAD
Madeleine Richey
Love in Winter
David Albert Solberg
I Have Made My Own Soul Suffer
Hoda Fakhari
Comfort
Marissa Kopco
The Bath
Bridget Hansen
A Notice to My Mailman
Elizabeth Schoppelrei
A Notice to My Mailman
The letters will stop coming.
Cerulean envelopes, the ones
with stickers on the outside
in places the post office
really shouldn’t allow, like
the front, next to my name:
the heart stickers.
I know you like the stickers.
You place them in my mailbox
smiling, and you shake your head
especially when they are sparkly.
But the letters will stop coming.
You see, I started sending my replies
through birds and morning fog
and running feet sounding
when the path is drawing to an end
and you are tired
and you want the end.
I am sending them
in spider webs heavy
with milky tears—
I sent one yesterday.
It was a half-finished crossword puzzle
on the side of the road.
I don’t think she noticed it was there.
About the Author
Elizabeth Schoppelrei is a senior at Wright State University. She is a Spanish major with minors in both creative writing and German as well as a certificate in women’s studies. She enjoys the way in which writing allows her to express her intersecting identities and creates space for discussion regarding the Queer community.