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They deep

Bill Neumire

webbed into my privacy
clawed at the cake of me
to see what could be sold,
held for ransom,
but there burst only
birds, each an angle
of my memory
of god

Bill Neumire's first poetry collection, Estrus, was a semifinalist for the 42 Miles Press Award. His new poems appear in Harvard Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, West Branch, and Nashville Review. He is an assistant editor for the literary magazine Verdad and a reviewer for Scout.

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ISSUE EIGHTEEN: Say Yes, Mr. Tell

James Lindsay
   Summerland

Amanda Chiado
   Swiss

Darren C. Demaree
   Emily as a Smile Would Have Ruined the Picture

Maria Sledmere
   At the Gin Tasting

Sayward Schoonmaker
   MEETING ONE

Holly Day
   Again, Under the Sun

Adam Tedesco
   I Had No Time of Sense

Laurel Radzieski
   Review #12

Bill Neumire
   They Deep

Matthew Schmidt
   This Car Will Get You Into Ontology

William Repass
   IMPORTANT NOTICE