Unreal
Larissa Nash

Why did I create this microcosm
of paper dolls who dream
in black and white text?

(Even an imaginary woman
will wake to what is real.)




LARISSA NASH is an alumna of Loyola University New Orleans. She currently resides in Austin, Texas, where she attempts to appease the rain god with daily haiku. Her work has also appeared in Fortunates. She is the founding editor of Rose Red Review, and she hopes to pursue an MFA in Fall 2012. Please visit her at www.underwaterlily.org.

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ISSUE :: 5 ::


Brenda Anderson :: The Fimble Wind
   
Evelyn Hampton :: Hi
  Savior
  Start With Steak
   
Helen Vitoria :: White
   
Adam Stoves :: Ballusional
   
Rose Hunter :: [taxi]
   
Gary Every :: Popes on Bicycles
   
Bethany Haug :: Love in the Park
   
Danielle Lea Buchanan :: Spawn
   
Lewis Gesner :: Black Ball
   
David Tomaloff :: Five Photographs
   
Danica Obradovic :: The Shortest Ceremony
  Syllabic Debacle
   
Mark Walters :: Caveboy 1 & 2
   
Larissa Nash :: The Star
  Unreal
   
Jenny McDougal :: For the Monkey Astronauts of America in the 1950s
  Adler Planetarium on a Weekend
   
James Valvis :: Poem Composed Entirely With Last Lines from James Dickey Poems 1 & 2
   
T.J. O'Donnell :: Morning Shift
  Handmade in Alaska
   
Emily Glossner Johnson :: Vladimir Lenin Grown Weary
   
Meg Eden :: An Old Man Sighted, Planting Poinsettias
   

Homage to the Strange Spirits

Kenneth Patchen ::  Picture Poems