The Warm Earth

Melanie Noel

Not the sun dance unless hooked to the sun

Orange out of bloom bright shrugging Other the

fanning mock orange ! . . . . , he said . . .

Beam and rosin

a seasonless swimming light o,

Maybe I'll be a star shrugged the earth

The sun would be everywhere in any case blood orange the ladders

in orbit

Melanie Noel’s poems have appeared in Fine Madness, Filter, Weekday, and Weird Deer, and are forthcoming in The Arcadia Project and The Volta. She has written poems for short films and installations and was a co-curator of APOSTROPHE, a dance, music, and poetry series in Seattle, Washington.

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In This Issue

Russell Jaffe
...No Punctuation Birthday
...Giant Caterpillar Sleepover
...Wild '93
A. Kendra Greene
...One Perfect White Swan
...Every Glass Flower in the Harvard Museum
Melissa Bobe
...Moscow
Joseph Mains and Donald Dunbar
...from Jorge: Sangre del Mar
D.E. Steward
...Octovre
Melanie Noel
...Warm Earth
...Cloud Trophy
Hai-Dang Phan
translating Phan Nhiên Hạo
...Paper Bells
...Morning at O’Hare Airport
...1858
Dana P. Diehl
...The Collectors
Chris Siteman
...The Bindery
M. Lewis
...Badness
Kyle Hemmings
...Bedbugs
...Gross Fable 2
Kari Larsen
...Van’s Friend in the City
David Shook
...Fourth Tenochitlan
...Like Asterisks
Jamie L. Olson
translating Irina Yevsa
...[Don’t whine, just eat your soup]
...South Station
...[How are things in Eden?]
Greg J. Hayes
...Drawn Boxes