Check out our latest issue of Lyceum: Fall 2020, Volume V
Science And…
Fiction
The notebook was not in his backpack. After unzipping all the pockets, Solove turned it upside-down and dumped the contents onto the floor of his office. He placed each item back in one by one – a pair of mud-sodden socks, some sheets of sticker-labels, his binder of sample-collection methods, three different colors of Sharpie. The notebook was not underneath the mat of papers and legal pads on his desk. It was not hidden on his bookshelf, or under the overflow of textbooks stacked haphazardly on the seat of the armchair…
Poetry
Black-Capped Chickadee by Hailey Napier I Chickadee is admirable among northern songbirds; she doesn’t migrate in winter, she freezes into stained glass. She is traced onto printer paper with crayons. She flies on scraps of leftover yarn, through bare haylofts, to harvest dried apple heads of wooden hanger dolls. II Black-capped Chickadee’s rotting house is warm, so she welcomes dip-dyed bluets beside her own muddied snow rockcress. When spring changes phase, they melt into song.
