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Volume 86, Numbers 3–4 (Fall–Winter 2019)
Poetry Editor’s Note
Paul Worley
Seeking Beatrice
Ryan Stander
Therese and Isabelle
Rock Isle at Low Tide
Patrick Meighan
Pencil
Toccata
Cicadas
Flower of Stone
Elina Petrova
Lifeblood
Wild Cat
Night Candles
Scott T. Hutchison
I Was Walking
Waking to Winter
Becky Kennedy
The rain
Marcus Amaker
Weed
Matthew J. Spireng
Forgetting
John Talbird
Glass
Mark Parsons
Hometown Visitor
Remembering My Children
David R. Solheim
American Bounty
The wolves have done their worst
John Sibley Williams
How We’ll Walk
Kevin Rabas
Waking in the city
Ira Rosenstein
The Anna Nicole Smith Poem
When Plato Shows Me the Sun
Danielle Nicole Byington
Harper and Marisol
Megan Howell
After the National People’s Congress Approved the Constitution Amendments, Which Removes Presidential Term Limits and Allows Xi to Rule China Forever
Kuo Zhang
A Drone Is Nothing Like the Sun
Jeanette Beebe
“Who Am I That I Am Not on Trial or in Prison?”
Ace Boggess
Dorothy at Fifty
Joel Allegretti
From Recent History
David Dephy
Nine Months After the Burning of Club Boccaccio: McAllen, Texas (1979)
Marlene Galván
Comfort Food
Victoria Bañales
Unvarnished
Amalia Dillin
Today at the thrift store
Bush League in Youth Soccer
Kevin J. McDaniel
Jorgia Wants a Chapter
Storey Clayton
Faust
The Other Sister
Harry Newman
This Goes On
The Bowerbird
Angie Mason
Picture-Happy Mind
Ibis
Peter Specker
Chameleon
Robin Gow
Dead Deer
Mattias Carosella
Not a Love Song
Cloudscape
Donna Pucciani
Homeward
Midnight Navidad
Lorraine Caputo
Heat Waves in the Ice Age
Wind Power
Robert S. King
Heat Wave with Sunflowers
Michael Rogner
Somnabulant Nation
Five and Infinite
Precipitation
Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Scientific Methods
James Sallis
To Call Your Own
The Cancer, Mija, is a Revenge on the Body
Spanish Lessons/ My Tongue Does Not Form the Shape of My Mother’s Tongue
Christine Amezquita
Courageous Living
Ella Alkiewicz
Baby Teeth
M. M. Adjarian
Stress Test
Gaby Bedetti
birthday
Corbett Buchly
Conception
Jodie Mortag
Cycle Unbroken
Anna Whiteside
A Week of Zen
Wendy Wisner
Child Who Won’t Sleep
Where There Is No Darkness
The Voice of Blood
Catherine Carter
A Poem to the Killing Virgin
Aaron Wallace
There is no beyond
This poem is not
Here is the watery grave
Peter Grandbois
Secreto/Secret
Espejo de agua/ Mirror of Water
Palpitante semilla/ Pulsating Seed
Xánath Caraza (translated by Sandra Kingery)
When the Water Recedes
Bonnie Larson Staiger
Byron elégeti Shelley tetemét a tengerparton/Byron Burns Shelley’s Corpse on the Shore
Gábor Lanckor (translated by Gabor G Gyukics)
Collection: Yala (Land)
For my people
Nuestras Abuelas
Camino/Way
Nii (Hermano Luna)
Sue Haglund
Untitled
Nate Preus
provenance
choose not
commandment
Ignacio Carvajal
Divide the Days
John Leonard
Defunct
Gale Acuff
Felix Culpa
Virginia Wiles
Saving Eros from the Middleman
Miriam O’Neal
The Last Freight Train
Lori Horvitz
Dangerous Currency
Loose Tooth
Sara Dovre Wudali
On Moving Out of My First Apartment
Michael Homolka
Stairs
Brandon Krieg
The Car Wash
Gilian Neiditch
Abel
Matthew Sisson
The Museum of Egyptian History
Don Raymond
Swallow, Do Not Chew
George Ryan
Copper Jazva
Elaine Reardon
Semillas de esperanza/ Seeds of Hope
Flores para el corazón/ Flowers for the Heart
Xun Betan (translated by Sean S. Sell)
Badlands
The knots we knit
C. R. Resetarits
Threads from the Heart Sky
Michelle Donahue
Playing with Cages
#4506
Clelia O. Rodríguez
The Photographer
Sofiul Azam
Burst
Self-Portrait as ICE as Teenager
Little Dream
Nicholas Reiner
Lullaby For Bones
Saint Pocahontas
Trickster Story
Jenny L. Davis
Ensnared In Heaven’s Nets
Kathleen Gunton
Obelisk
Jane Blanchard
We, the Many
Marie-Andree Auclair
Anemia
Circulating
Vivian Wagner
Magician’s Assistant
David B. Prather
Brief Elegy for William Harrold
Kenneth Pobo
Obituary: Salvatore Cacosa
John J. Trause
A short poem for my wife, my mother, and my unborn daughter
Special Education, ACT prep, and Hephaestus
Writing with the Devil
John McDonough
For my daughter
Tradition and the Individual Talent
Olivia Lawrance
Red Schwinn
Nicholas Mohlmann
Wearing Sadness
Kip Zegers
Appetite
After Chemo
Norita Dittberner-Jax
Ordinary Language Philosophy
David Hargreaves
critical invitation
Carl “Papa” Palmer
Sonnet for a day like today
Sonnet at that time of year
William Joel
A Tax Thicket: 26 U.S.C. §§
Thomas E. Simmons
End Notes
Rob Kenagy
