THE INVERTED SYNTAX NOVEMBER 2019 ​ONLINE ISSUE TWO
IS A SNEAK PEEK INTO OUR 2ND PRINT ISSUE ​
COMING FEBRUARY 2020

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

Inverted Syntax's Online Issue Two​

featuring award-winning writers and artists including 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..."

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."
Vertical Divider

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

  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?

 Self Defense
​Joni  ReneeWhitworth

"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.​" ​​
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.

​​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." 
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."