"Life and Pandemic" - Spring 2020

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Things I Left in the Driveway, Because ICouldn’t Pack Them Into Boxesart supplies, applications, bicycle helmet, the barn, burnt bacon,closed windows, the cat that lives on the corner, too muchcoffee, catcalls, the chainsmoking neighbor, coupons,dress shoes, the neighbor’s son’s drum set, desks with initialsetched into them, emails, eggshells, forgetting, frenchfries that are too well-done, farmer’s markets, frost that chokes thegrass, gold and blue, graduation gown hemmed at home, getting lost,hailstorms, housekeys, jugs of milk, karaoke on the weekends,misery, money, the morning paper, new kids, nicknames, neverknowing which song to play from the jukebox, old love letters, oddjobs, open windows, police patrols, parking tickets, riding the trainwith your face pressed against the glass, questions, rainstorms, rabbitsthat won’t quit making love out front, ruined hair, sandaled feet,sparklers, stars, thrift stores, tire treads in the mud, tv dinners, umbrellasthat live in our closets, unopened presents, the sign that sayswelcome to the central valley, wearing your cousin’s used vintage,where do you work, anxiety, windshield with a small crack in it, abreeze where you once were.Kristen Chastain
Emergencewe stand on the shores of Babylontoo afraid to speakfor fear of corrupting the momentwe are unprepared and uncomfortablelike it is our first time,like nothing could prepare us for this feelingeyes shattered like glassdreams replaced and warped into pleaswe sit confused in our dark cornersand ponder at permanence—we mongrels as plague doctors in the quagmireand the disciples of doom,watching a conjunction of wasps fly door to doorKyle Van Lant
Page 1 and 2: NEW FORUMSpring 2020A literary jour
Page 3: ContentsKristen Chastain Things I L
Page 7 and 8: Myself at a DistanceWhen this is al
Page 9 and 10: UntitledJiaying Jing
Page 11 and 12: (heart)hi am a gallery ofthird-degr
Page 13 and 14: (heart)hi remember weeping the nigh
Page 15 and 16: My Magician, AmericaSnapped her slu
Page 17 and 18: Pandemic as Spiralis laying awake o
Page 19 and 20: How to Write an Essay During a Pand
Page 21 and 22: Trans in PandemicI feel trapped, li
Page 23 and 24: Because You Are Here“Xingren is a
Page 25 and 26: a graceful body is never kind—i r
Page 27 and 28: Swansongthe notefalls flat.a piroue
Page 29 and 30: What, Then, Will Be Leftyour hands
Page 31 and 32: What, Then, Will Be Leftapocalypse
Page 33 and 34: SolitudeAlessandro Verniani
Page 35 and 36: Sun ScreenI like sunscreen asin sun
Page 37 and 38: Rattler, and Other Things I Remembe
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