Truth
Anna Catone - { Histories }
Janlori Goldman - { Bachelard's Cabinet } { The Jewish Gauchos of Entre Rios, 1917 }{ One Good Turn }
Elizabeth Howort - { The Sun, That Great Magician }
Sam Abbott - { It Eats You }
Rachel M. Simon - { Seizure } { Title IX }{ Hometown }{ Swish }
Untruth
Rosa C. Li - { Lucky Elephant }
Ken Cormier - { A Day in the Life of a Conversationalist }
Juan Carlos Reyes - { A War for Rigoberto Chismón }
Rachel M. Simon - { After Life }
We Don't Know and They
Won't Tell Us
Rebecca Keith - { Excerpt from Misdirected Postcard, One }
T.M. De Vos - { Leaving Lake Baikal }
Kamilah Aisha Moon - { Going Under } { Don't Move This Dust }{ Burn }{ After Our Daughter's Autism Diagnosis }
| Bachelard's Cabinet by Janlori Goldman |
(for Jake Berthot)
A cabinet rattles. A vague scritch
and tilt today. Other days, inner
cracking, an egg inside an egg.
From inside the house it irritates,
insists on investigation. A door –
a gag or muffler – gestures to the
latch, elegant handle curved to a
finger’s lift. When clamor within
rustles the pulse, when nothing
will die back on its own or retreat
down the path, I open the door,
think, this time I’ll quiet that hulla-
baloo in the chest, soothe with a
stroke, or a poem, or gaze of
recognition. At the instant the
handle’s raised, pulled to release
the ruckus, that racket stops. Stops
in the breath of opening, seeing
inside. Cabinet quiet. Cabinet
still. A cabinet is a cabinet still.
Until it’s shut again. Repeat.
