UNDER THE ICE – BETHANY A. BEELER

INSTANT NOODLES: HOT-BUTTERED HOLIDAYS ~ COVER
IF ONLY ~ Beeler
BASIC HOLIDAY MATH ~ Hardy
THE CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS ~ Salome
SURPRISE PARTY ~ Fitzgerald
LATE NIGHT ~ Bern
NEW YEAR’S 2044 WITH GEORGE ~ Walker
GOING HOME ~ Gilliam
RECIPE FOR HARD NOODLES ~ Fleming
HAPPY HOUR ~ Robinson
ALL STRAW, WORTH NOTHING ~ Beeler
MOSS SOUP AND MANICOTTI ~ Johnson
STOLEN PLUMS ~ White
MOLLY’S MAGIC KITCHEN ~ Schatz
MY CHARMING SMILE ~ Supranowicz
MISS APPARITION CONTEST ~ Fleming
NEW YEAR’S 1969 ~ Bell
BUTTER EATERS ~ Gallaher
UNDER THE ICE ~ Beeler
PARTIAL PORTRAITS ~ Bern
NOD AND SMILE ~ Fiorini
AUTO-NEUROTICA ~ Shapiro
ENTWINED ~ Beeler
MISS CORDELIA’S CHRISTMAS ~ Goodridge
MEDUSA ~ Beeler
SAGA ~ Robinson
THE GRAVY BOAT – Claypool
JACKIE ~ Beeler
INSIDES AND OUTS OF POPCORN ~ Gallaher
HO HO HO AND A BOTTLE OF RUM ~Speizer Crandell
WISTFUL DREAM ~ Beeler
DEAR JOHNNY ~ Golladay
NEW-YEAR’S-EVE OVER-NIGHT REST-STOP ~ Fleming
J’ENTENDS TON COEUR ~ Beeler
CHRISTMAS EVE FROM UNDER THE TRAIN TABLE ~ Fulcher
STILL HOPEFUL ~ Bern
HOT-BUTTERED BIOS

That bubble in ice I might’ve
Breathed, Houdini gaped and
Gasping. Water-bound, cuffed, I writhe,
Chain of my unmaking.