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CRITTERS
a millennial arts journal
F e a r s o m e
c r i t t e r s
vo l u m e 1 2018
EDITOR OF PROSE
Bailey Weese
EDITOR OF POETRY
Anthony Procopio Ross
EDITOR OF VISUAL ART
Korbin Jones
CONTENT ASSISTANTS
Kohl Moutray, Anna Bagoly,
Angel Etima Ette-Umoh, Shandy Guffey
COVER ART & DESIGN
Korbin Jones
Copyright 2018 Fearsome Critters
All rights reserved
POETRY
Alaz Ada narcissus on a boat 60
Pazarlık 61
act two 62
Amy Bauer Paternal/Maternal 98
Mara Benowitz National Eulogy 138
“Thoughts & prayers” 139
Jeffrey Burghauser The Newborn is Driven Home 4
Violet Callis Felix Culpa 40
Priyam Goswami Choudhury genesis 100
elle chu self-portrait as a mound of roses 5
you’re on fire 5
Marlee Cox {Homebody} 48
{West of the Cul-de-Sac} 50
Caroline Dehart diary of an anorexic girl 125
Ryan Drendel On Our First Date 148
Meg Eden 9/11 poem 137
Elena Ender The mug my mom probably just got
from Marshall’s back in the early ‘90s 54
Antony Fangary Inland Empire 133
Natalie Gallaher It’s Coming 66
Mónica Gomery Now we live together 77
Julia Guarch One More “Lived Through,” Not Lived 97
Zoe Hanna pushover 66
Ripley 66
Ashley Imlay our generation has had no great war* 97
Elena Jackendoff Something Rots 88
Sarah T. Jewell Getting Ready for Christ’s Party 82
Anastasia Jill Subversive 17
From: A Lolita 18
Catherine Jones The air in the room 1
Ben Jorisch This Thing of Fire 64
Merkin Karr Goodbyes Taste Like Kalopsia 34
Thoughts on Being a Witch 38
The Newborn is Driven Home
Jeffrey Burghauser
Macerating through its sleeve,
a newborn affirms through retching hips
that the spheres of God & Man still heave
into something like eclipse.
The event of labour must
ands stimulate a man’s doubt—just
before it requires he believe.