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
Sundays in Hudson
My grandfather was a dinner-table skeptic.
I never saw him regard the things
he didn’t understand, like the
directions on oatmeal boxes
or why people suddenly held his hand,
so brittle it could dissolve at their touch.
He told me that he owned a telescope
but not a watch, because the stars
kept him sane, while the days stole his mind.
I asked him what he thought of me,
but he just flipped the TV channel,
muttering into his plate. And I watched
as he cursed the saints he mistook
for sinners, like the makers of
hearing aids, because he was tired
of listening to the world sigh.
And 90 years had robbed him
of the only woman who made sense.
About the Author
Jamie Brian is a freshman public relations major at Kent State University. When she is not getting lost in her head, she enjoys going to airshows and playing guitar. She can often be seen wandering around campus with a notebook and over-sized sunglasses.