VOLUME 6, ISSUE 2, FALL 2021
Content
Regarding My Role in Poetry
JOHN GREY
Pubescent Girls Fall in Love with Water Ballet
MERNA DYER SKINNER
Fujita 5
LARA HAMIDI-ISMERT
River Rentals
MADELINE HOF
Updates Are Crucial to Our Survival
HALEY L. JOHANNESEN
Sphinxed
MARY WARNER
Arise
JENNIFER LUCKENBILL
A Poem About the Moon
VALERIE SOPHER
Fever-Dream, A Poem
KENNETH BUTTERFIELD
Tell Me a Lie
XINYU LUO
Come Daughter, Enter My Kiln & Tick-Tock Ad Hoc
MARY ELLEN TALLEY
Zunguka Zunguka
FREDERICK LIVINGSTON
At the Elysian Diner
MAUREEN COSGROVE
Kepler-16b & They Pronounced Her in Society That Has No Fringe
ELI COYLE
Dear Joe
KENNY LIKIS
Like and Follow
RODNEY E. SCHMIDT
When Someone Comes Knocking
MAUREEN SHERBONDY
According to Plan
HOLLY VAN HARE
Cinderella’s Monster
J.E. SEUK
The Foot Race on PhytoLore
PHYLLIS HOUSEMAN
When It’s Time to Remember
MADELINE HOF
“Let’s Pretend”
JULIA C. SPRING
Faith
TRACI ELLIOTT
Driven
JAMES MACDONALD
another world is possible (it’s just sweet, sweet fantasy, baby)
JOSHUA THOMEN
Eye Plant & Forest Witch
SHANNON GARDNER
The Mermaid
DEVIN WILSON
Hand in Hand
CRISTIÁN PIETRAPIANA
Celestial Autumn
GARRETT FLAGG
Fantasy Birds
MELISSA CEREN
underground corrida
JERONIMO “NOMADECOLLAGE”
Whistling
ANN PRIVATEER
Masthead
Senior Editors
Holly Van Hare, Poetry
Safeeyah Iverson, Fiction
Em Panetta, Nonfiction
Joseph Payne, Digital
Rachel Rosado, Art
Fiction Editors
Rachel Bheecham
L. Owens
Gabriella Pardo
Michael Savio
Poetry Editors
Shane Martin
Shaindel Tomasovitch
Hannah Warren
Nonfiction Editors
Alessandra Abate
El Carlisle
Navdeep Kaur
Demetra Maragos
Rachel Rosado
Our publication is forever thankful for and indebted to the guidance of our faculty advisor Kimon Keramidas for his continual methodological guidance and support. We could not have done this without you, thank you.
Caustic Frolic is a peer-edited graduate student-run journal founded by New York University’s Center for Experimental Humanities and supported by a GSAS Student Life grant.