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Archivist

Glen Armstrong

She wants to capture my voice,
but I never speak

to machines as I do to myself
or the few friends

who set me at ease
enough to forget myself

altogether. Should I die

before she hits record,
consider this a keepsake

or data, perhaps, I never
really understood

the purpose of this.

Glen Armstrong holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters and has a new chapbook titled Set List (Bitchin Kitsch,) and two more scheduled for 2015: In Stone and The Most Awkward Silence of All (both Cruel Garters Press.)

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ISSUE SEVEN: May Sell Tyres

Jill Khoury
   [posterior vitreous detachment]
   Colony

Sonya Vatomsky
   Mouth-Off (III)
   The Serbo-Croatian language
      uses the same word, čičak,
      for burdock and Velcro

Kamden Hilliard
   no baby but the poem is about you

Jessica Schouela
   The Funeral

Chris Campanioni
   Working Models

Sarah Ann Winn
   Suburban Thaw
   Rolling Acres Mall, Abandoned

Cynthia Conte
   Number three star: Fast years

Diane Gage
   Nanobiomaximum
   Dear John (Cage)

John Lowther
   a sonnet from 555

Rebecca Yates
   What is "Emoji"?

Glen Armstrong
   Archivist

Marta Ferguson
   The Nether as Pizza Parlor

September Hinkle
   Surviving Charlie