Table of Contents

Bombay Gin 39.2, 2013

Letter from the Editor . . . 1

april joseph

Offer a line that could cry . . . 7

Brent Armendinger

A Devotion to Spheres . . . 11

Our Bodies in Reverse . . . 13

Elyse Brownell

Sinkhole . . . 15

HR Hegnauer

from When the Bird is Not a Human . . . 25

Art Portfolio 1

Caity Lee

from Se Retrouver . . . 31

Art Portfolio 2

Laura McAllister

Untitled . . . 35

Travis Macdonald, j/j hastain, Michelle Taransky, and Joseph Cooper

from 4Play . . . 40

Tracie Morris with pril joseph

grateful sounds: the body . . . 43

Harryette Mullen

from Tanka Diary . . . 51

Akilah Oliver

Sacred and Profane Paths in African American Literature . . . 53

Akilah Oliver, Rachel Levitsky, and Tisa Bryant

six engagements . . . 70

Shannon Ongaro

Akilah Oliver and the Poetics of Grief . . . 79

JH Phrydas

Levitation . . . 95

Nicole Peyrafitte

Hòu! Hòu! Hòu! Hemna d’ Oò / Oò! Oò! Oò! Women of Oò . . . 100

Celle qui cherchea / She who seeks has . . . 102

Andrea Rexilius

from New Organism . . . 104

Joanna Ruocco

Bronze Knobs . . . 111

They Wait for Carriage Pins . . . 112

The Skepper . . . 113

Hollow Strakes . . . 114

Two Trees . . . 115

Small Beer . . . 116

Ariella Ruth

from remnants . . . 117

Alicia Salvadeo

Err to Narrow . . . 120

Eleni Sikelianos

from

Cat Girl/Cure House . . . 124

Christina Vega-Westhoff

& The Time Between History . . . 126

Unanswer . . . 128

Falling Eagle or Vulture . . . 129

Anne Waldman

Sappho . . . 130

Matching Half . . . 131

Akilah Walks . . . 132

Lament Our One . . . 133

Reading through Akilah Oliver’s “Tressles of Hair, She Said” . . . 136

Indigo Weller

Elision 13.5 . . . 138

BOOK REVIEWS

Jennifer Firestone, Flashes

Reviewed by

Charlotte Annie . . . 163

Laura Walker, Follow–Haswed

Reviewed by

Sarah Richards Graba . . . 167

Dorothea Lasky, Thunderbird

Reviewed by

Sally Smith . . . 171

Min Jung Oh, Body in a Hydrophilic Frame

Reviewed by

Ariella Ruth . . . 175

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