Online Issue Two Features 
J Michael Martinez ​​| Jessica Fischoff |
Megan Spiegel |
​Joni Renee Whitworth|
​Adam Malinowski | Lauren Davis |
​Christy Sheffield Sanford |
​Meg Reynolds | Jessica Reed |​
Raymond Luczak | James Davis |​
Artwork by
Hildy Maze | Carol Radsprecher |
Alexis Cortez | ​K Johnson Bowles |
Christopher Paul Brown

from Letter from the Editor on Issue Two


​"For me, Inverted Syntax is the idea that we are always alive in art and text. Most of us are taught to envision existence as something that is here and now, visible and tangible. These pieces selected for Online Issue Two offer a mere glimpse into our stunning Print Issue Two, in which we invite readers to step outside of themselves and expand their definitions of what is real and what is possible. Issue Two builds on mapping the subconscious that is working through visual and textual arts. It presents the idea that humans everywhere are in conversation with each other, that when you pay attention to those conversations, when they are aligned just right, they can reveal answers to something more."
Cover Art  for Inverted Syntax 's Online Issue 2
"A Little Squished" by Carol Radsprecher

I N T E R V I E W S

Muddied Genre and Grassroots
​An Interview with Steven Dunn
The Weird World of Language
​An Interview with Eric Baus
​Intent Versus Reception
An Interview with Kathy Fish
Acts of Poetic Composition
​An Interview with Andrea Rexilius

Featuring Allissa Hertz's Interview with Eric Baus "The Weird World of Language."
Baus is the author of five books of poetry, including winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry for his book Scared Text, and winner of the Verse Prize for his book, The To Sound from Wave Books. His latest book, How I Became a Hum is forthcoming from Octopus in 2019. Check out this fascinating conversation with Eric Baus.

And Featuring one of Inverted Syntax's Best of the Net nominees
A Fissured Tongue Feature
"2020 AD" by Kevin Sharp 

Inverted Syntax's 
​Online Issue Two

Take a peek into our Print Issue Two
Available February 2020

​​Our Online Issue features a runner-up and two finalists ​from the
​2019 Sublingua Prize for Poetry ​selected by Dorothea Lasky

After Love
Adam Malinowski

"meanwhile, the cell doors of Huron Valley unlock
and we are singing Beyoncé just for old-time's sake..."
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Gods Copper
Raymond Luczak ​​

"every sunday at st michaels     all of us nine kids sat in the fourth pew        so i could lipread father frank better         yet his voice..."

Ar
James Davis

"Your protean music changes keys across borders:guttural schwesteren, uvular confrères, trilling fratelli, alveolar kardeşler."
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Snow
Jessica Fischoff

"One thing unrooted and the whole room tumbles down. The roof folds in on itself like skin so aged that bones only carry the draping."


​Reception
J Michael Martinez

​"A sky as blue as her
​dress spirals
as her hair as black as
​                the pupil’s center"
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​from The Fan Cycle Mallarmé 
​in Late Summer
Christy Sheffield Sanford​​
"Orchestral sound, scintillating piano. Lulu, did you leave me for a bright star? 16.8 light years away? Is the culprit Altair – that hot, incandescent body rapidly spinning in Aquila the Eagle? Does your lover live in a mass  of dust and gas, whimsically called the cloud of G? The G-cloud. Does he touch you there?"
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Memory Ephemeris (a constellation) 
​Megan Spiegel
"Ephemeris, n.  /ɪˈfɛmərɪs/ – from Latin ephēmeris, Greek ἐϕημερίς: diary. A compendium listing the positions of notable celestial objects by date; may be used in navigation, divination."
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​​​The Bright​
Lauren Davis
"In my monthly bath of milk, I am Cleopatra. The wallpaper in the bathroom does not flake, does not smell of rot. The lightbulb above the chipped sink is not bare. The cracking linoleum is marble. Honey and rose sit in the air. I never dilute the milk. It is pure and heavy on my skin." 

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Self Defense  
​Joni Renee Whitworth

"I wonder if she sees me that way: a stagnant summer with a pending 'yet,' the husk of a filbert not yet become. To write her name, her full real name, would be to learn the word for safety, serenity, admiration. Are we even ready to hear that word?"                                             

​Whose Form is Delocalized 
​ Jessica Reed ​

"Self is the structure that opposes, and does not strictly exist. A specific ionic bond between specific pairs of ions, about which we can never speak.​" ​​
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Day 158
​ Meg Reynolds
from a series of comic poetry featured in
​Inverted Syntax's Print Issue 1 ​
"As I walked to another first date yesterday, I felt numb as a cinder block
and worried that my sexy is broke."