Fresh-Cut Lit & More ISSUE NO. 2 SUMMER 2013 Want weekly writing tips, author interviews, and book reviews, plus 4 quarterly issues sent directly to your inbox? Subscribe to Cleaver! It’s free. ART Comparative Mythologiesby Rithika Merchant Bi-Productby Leah Koontz*** The Modernist Cabin by Emily Steinberg** POEMS This Film of My Life …by Brian Baumgart Openings and November’s Edgeby Bill Brown I Didn’t Know How to Spell Spondylolisthesis by Mike Harper Carefully Wrapped Festival of Discoveryby Rich Ives Night Sweats by Jen Karetnick The Tao of Wordsby Timothy Kercher Before Going Out and An Omenby Nissa Lee On Beigeby Prairie Markussen We Have to Talk and With An ‘Oon’ In It by M. A. Schaffner Memorial Dayby Luke Stromberg** from Aposthropesby Anna Strong*** Clothesline, Peonies, and Spring by Randi Ward FLASH Journalismby John Carroll That Summerby George Dila Crocodile Hands by Amber Lee Dodd* Wash, Rinse, Repeatby Carly Greenberg* The Song in a Cloud by Kate LaDew The Straight Warp of Necessityby Mark Mondalek Air Conditionerby Daniel Torday** SHORT STORIES You Were Going to Tell Meby R.C. Barajas Baby Picturesby Kat Carlson Turid by Rachel B. Glaser After Dinnerby Katherine Heiny They Shared a Fish by Eva Lomski Daisyby Chris Ludovici*** The Place of the Red-footed Rooster…by Mark Lyons** The Law of Constant Anglesby Jason Newport Of Snakes and Stones by Jennifer Pullen In Very Little Time on the Nileby Christopher X Shade Keep the Changeby Jenny Wales Steele The Pain by Caleb True* NOVEL EXCERPT“The Dig” from Lion and LeopardNathaniel Popkin** ESSAYS My Writer’s Blockby Kathryn Hellerstein** Dispatch from the Cat Showby Jamie-Lee Josselyn** Rolling Empty by Roger Leatherwood Beating Ploughshares into iPodsby Anya Lichtenstein* Duckpin Bowling with Caitlin and Buffalo Bill by Timothy Kenny Beyond the Blue Ridgeby Grace Maselli Bicycles and Frog Rainby Eric G. Müller *Cleaver Emerging Artist**Artist of Philadelphia***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist