Apeiron Review | Issue 6

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Jonathan Treece

Airbag I’ve tried to find something important and let it bleed from the naked tip of my #2 Ticonderoga onto a sunny landscape of blank pages. My success has been limited. So far, all I’ve come up with is something about butterflies. What was it you said to me? With your forehead pressed against the window, drawing heart shapes in the fog, mouth agape, forcing your breath out as your steamy canvas dissipated, you asked “What is winter for?” I shrugged and laughed. Flakes of frost shaped like cathedral spires melted on the pink inchworm of your finger as you touched the tip of my nose. The fog evaporated from the pane of glass and I am tracing the smeared curves left behind. These memories are a bit of hard apple wrapped in thorns that I keep trying to swallow. At least it was quick, not at all like cancer, but like a car wreck— all split glass and twisted metal, leaving no survivors.

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Dispossession

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The Other Woman

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Aurora, Wǒ de ài

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Lately They Have Been Telling Me

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Stones

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Fatherhood

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pages 57-60

Angle

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Father

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Thinking of Nothing

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Mikey Comes Homes

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Kitengela

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I Prefer My Flag

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Natural Enemy

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page 51

My 95

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Throwing Stones

10min
pages 45-48

In a Dream of Slow Moving Traffic

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The Undercarriage

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pages 36-37

Winter Begins in Berlin

1min
page 43

Road Trip

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Airbag

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First

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The Best Days

2min
page 35

The Endless

10min
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Cave-diving

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page 30

Lac Bernard

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The Thief

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The Passion of) Joan of Arc

1min
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The Revivification of Charles Josiah West, Age 82

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After Hours with Orange

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Southern Girls

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The Malfunction of a Small Airplane as Seen From the Ground

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Birdcage

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Interpreting the Diagnosis

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Utopia

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Naked Guy

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5 a.m. quiet

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