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Excerpt from How to Write to an Ex-Lover 
by Melissa Kirsch 
Indiana Review

The letter begins, my dear, here's an update:
the apartment is fraught with flies, I'm living
with houseflies, dozens of them, many unswattable.
or perhaps my dear, since you became a tangelo,
that is, something hybrid, a composite
of many torturous experiences, something
undefinable, so we have to make up a name
for you, the apartment has filled up
with houseflies. I've heard
that every time a fly lands, it pees.
The result of the fly-sized gash
in the windowscreen is perhaps thousands of
          puddles
of fly piss, invisible, but everywhere.
I didn't expect it, and in winter, too,
when we assume all the flies to be dead,
or to have migrated. My dear, here's an update:
or look what I've discovered: impromptu
species interaction, the earth is a hive for it.
 

TONY ARDIZZONE  
CATHERINE BOWMAN 
JOHN McCLUSKEY, JR. 
ALYCE MILLER 
ROGER MITCHELL  
CORNELIA NIXON 
SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS 
MAURA STANTON 
DAVID WOJAHN  

CWP Selections:  

when asked whether i think 
Abner Bardeguez 

Excerpt from "Rain" 
Melanie Culbertson 

Total Beverage  
Food and Liquor 
Chrissy Kolaya 

Letter to my Fiancé's Ex-Girlfriend 
Robin Silbergleid 
 
Story About the Moon 
Paul-Victor Winters 
 

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