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sPARKLE
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2.3
Sparkle
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Contents
Q
Sarah Ciston
Fuck Everyone But Us 7
Siamak Vossoughi
Don’t Ask Me 17
Sherril Jaffe
Rest Stop 23
J. Brandon Loberg
Requiem for the Butterflies 29
from The 16th & Mission Review
But a Drop Upon the Concrete 35
L
Cassandra Gorgeous
Everybody, Look at Me 41
Donna Laemmlen
Invisible Parade 45
James J. Siegel
County Fair 49
Graham Gremore
One of Your Children Smokes 57
Nicole McFeely
No One Will Ever See This 61
Then 63
Shruti Swamy
Fever, August 66
2.3
Michael Capozzola
Stars on Sunset Blvd. front cover
West Texas back cover
Sentimental 39
Giant Fist 40
Fuck Everyone But Us
12
Sarah Ciston —–––––––––––
Futurism
14
Lizzy Acker —–––––––––––
Bug Attack!
15
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Joe started to cry as the orange bugs
seeped into the kitchen and began
gnawing our shoes.
16
Lizzy Acker —–––––––––––
Don’t Ask Me
22
Siamak Vossoughi —–––––––––––
Rest Stop
25
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“As long as we’re here,” Miriam said,
over the top. “And, dear, I’m going to
leave my purse in the car, so be sure to
lock it.”
27
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28
Sherril Jaffe —–––––––––––
Requiem for the Butterflies previously published
in The 16th & Mission Review No. XIII – Chalk Outlines
Years ago,
without leaving
a note or an inkling
29
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of where they went missing,
It’s cold
30
J. Brandon Loberg —–––––––––––
The rain hasn’t painted
i’m sailing,
Every shard,
has a story
31
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staring holes in the sky
32
J. Brandon Loberg —–––––––––––
Everything electric,
33
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Linger in the cracks
34
J. Brandon Loberg —–––––––––––
But a Drop Upon the Concrete
37
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.
38
J. Brandon Loberg —–––––––––––
Everybody, Look at Me
42
Cassandra Gorgeous —–––––––––––
When tourists go to North Beach, they
expect pastas and espressos. When they
venture into Chinatown, they buy back-
scratchers and comment on the
obnoxious smells. When they come to the
Castro, they want to see the weird and
wacky. They aren’t coming to check out
Pottery Barn.
44
Cassandra Gorgeous —–––––––––––
Invisible Parade
48
Donna Laemmielen —–––––––––––
County Fair
50
James J. Siegel —–––––––––––
Jenny and the Sea
56
Julia Halprin Jackson —–––––––––––
One Of Your Children Smokes And It’s
NOT Your Son
59
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threw a hairbrush at me. And that was the
last we ever spoke of the matter.
60
Graham Gremore —–––––––––––
No One Will Ever See This
61
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perhaps, I've been wailing ever since
62
Nicole McFeely —–––––––––––
Then
"when? you?"
63
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when we root out tragic infection
bleed out all that has happened to us
recently
when we cease to do what we believe
we must do
and respond to the resounding sound of
the clock knock knocking at the door
step
64
Nicole McFeely —–––––––––––
65
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Fever, August
67
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(How to Fall from) Grace
easy as whispering
to the pear trees i once fell here,
ripe as a felled pear,
sticky with wasps—
i once lay here
with a boy
on top of me
in the sun
in the slatted light
that comes between the leaves
in the latest afternoon—
as easy as taking
the hand of a boy
and walking through the orchard, stepping
over
each shadow of each trunk, the
basketweave,
keeping the luck that you have
as the hair sweeps across your shoulders
& your back
and he puts his hand in your hair and
69
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pulls you to him by the back of the head
and you sway in the orchard light
and you kiss in that orchard light
and the air is still and silent
except for a pair
of redwinged blackbirds
off in a tree at the edge of the stand
most of which
is still ahead
72
Melissa Stein —–––––––––––
73
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