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...Elise Berrier © 2016 Elise Berrier 2016 Elise Berrier In the Cadaver Lab There lay the cadavers. There lay the cadavers and they settled with purple around their nipples like my father. There lay the cadavers and they sunk in silver lunchboxes in the lab. There lay my father and he...

... / pineneedled / still I made my way back through her bushes At first catch she briared me: “settle your skirt / I said settle your skirt and goodgodchild / you’ve got outside in your hair” minnesota review 81 (2013) DOI 10.1215/00265667-2331994  © 2013 Lori Mosley...

....” There is no arguing with his logic, so the matter is settled. The other contributors step out from the crowd, the same determined looks on their faces. But there are only four. No one else seems to notice, though, and in any case, four is more than we expected to get. They set off almost immediately...

... Kenya to Britain and then to the United States from 1990 to 2004.8 In the letters, Patel s mother implores her daughter to cease her work as an activist-poet and settle down by get- ting married. In a letter titled Mangal Sutra (a Hindi word referring to the marriage necklace worn by Hindu women...

...—and realized once she wrenched them open once more that a rose-colored dusk had settled like dust over the car. She drove from the cardboard storefronts and graffitied lots of the city to some suburb, bound for nowhere in particular except, perhaps, the unremarkable landmarks of strangers’ childhoods...

...-2409874  © 2014 Edmund Sandoval 11 12 the minnesota review muscle of his calves and through his kneecaps, settled in his thighs like rank milk. Through the night his body had slipped down the roof, and when he settled, his legs were left...

... by their heels without talking. In this version, I know the password to leaven the latch of fingers wrapped around aluminum cans. I hold a compact mirror up to her nose to see the fog of the living. If I get the story right, a fog will settle over the shore...

... a few years shy of fitting in; I fed french fries to a dog sitting outside, looked up at stars, replaced the taste of him with something sweeter, then said: “Doesn't this feel like a movie?” As though I didn't need to settle my stomach, soak up the acid of him with starch, fizzle out the nausea...

... a dog. And now he fills minnesota review 84 (2015) DOI 10.1215/00265667-2857745  © 2015 Michelle Bonczek Evory 7 8 the minnesota review your veins, settles    to the bottom of your heart    like small stones...

... about food stamps. Mortgage payment will be late, even with help from the union strike fund. Collectors are calling. I have had this job eleven years. I say settle. ...

...Matthew Lippman © 2013 Matthew Lippman 2013 Matthew Lippman Spinach I just want to be thirsty. I don’t want to be sexy. I don’t want to be tall or full of bluster. I just want to drink whiskey with Mike and Matthew but am allergic to malt so have to settle...

... hand that should have stayed away from all doors. Physical in-coordination was a sign of overinvestment. I thought of giving it up, this private space that gave me possibilities, but fidelity was warm, meanwhile full of holes. I once believed in settling, which...

...Lucian Mattison Lucian Mattison Honey We are a stream of honey tumbling from a dipper, dropped atop the slope of a black top roof in Baltimore. We lean back onto a sheen of light rain, settle on the cornea blinking a moonlit terrace of winter overcast. We kiss, pull warmth back into us, a spoonful...

...-clutch of the spirit. Yet, some, escapees, from the Disneyland gulag, share the quiet roads with farmers, stop at this village to repeat questions, deliver the gift of conscience, nests of shade settling on children's shoulders. Snails spin on the green...

..., so I will settle, here, on the floor of my cheap apartment, again imagining there’s a man lingering just outside my door while Diane begs to have her shirt cut off. minnesota review 84 (2015) DOI 10.1215/00265667-2857917  © 2015 Doug Paul Case 54 ...

... on the concrete floor watching it stumble, reshape its musculature to sleep in sawdust while the man at the counter settled on four, shrugged, said to the cashier: it s a miracle we haven t had a late freeze yet. the cashier palmed her jeans pocket for her last cigarette in reply. slowly, i m learning...

... I know how absence will become you, how to get lost compensating. Cloaked neckhole and tall collar, a pumpkin lugged around. How you ve been gawked at in the liquor store, an ordeal at the bank. My face in bearded drag. Do you tire wandering through silent black, ever want to settle? Stay inside...

...   21 & watched a turtle blow & settle in the mud until but for his eyes he was mud. Baby was sick & the blowflies sticky, so mother put her in the tent, where she slept all day & only...

...Katie Fallon © 2013 Katie Fallon 2013 Katie Fallon Solitaire I stepped through the mesh door and entered the turkey vulture’s enclosure, settling down on the ground near the threshold between the outdoor and indoor portions of the long, narrow flight pen. I leaned my back...

...Nat Wisehart Nat Wisehart Liminal Space For a year I was between names and would rather not be called by anything. But Oliver tried to settle me. Hunched over his laptop, he scrolled through the alphabet on page after page of baby name sites. On his couch, under the same fleece blanket, our legs...