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Lucky (Issue no.) 13
Our friends embraced us at the curb as the bus arrived. Good luck! they said. We boarded and found our seats, and we waved to them from the window, twice. The motor idled as we waited.
We decided to have good luck. Not forever, which is too remote, and too daring to imagine, but good luck for a spell – until we run dry. The bus backed and turned, and we felt the brief weightlessness of a new beginning, again, and its elements of danger, escape or imprisonment, and the promise of returning anew. Our friends outside spoke, but their words fell beyond our reach, half-vanished as we were, already into the make-it-up-as-you-go inbetweenedness of a journey. Our five-minute-younger ghosts stood there too, looked up at us, and we all waved again. Goodbye! said the ghosts. Good luck!
Poetry
Barcelona by Lisa Basile
Suppose You Were a Clone by Rachel Bunting
Turnover by Suzanne Marie Hopcroft
The Wave of the Wichita Wedding by John F. Buckley and Martin Ott
Meeting An Old Lover by Paige Riehl
Prayer Boats by Richard Schiffman
Two Poems by Laura Sobbott Ross
Félicitations by Casey Thayer
Renewing My Passport by Michael Young
Postcard prose
One Night on Lake Bled by Sonya Bilocerkowycz
Avignonnaïse by Samantha Hall
Legacy by Brooks Rexroat
Travelogue
From the Great Plains to the Bosporus: How Two Private Libraries Converged by Holly Case
