Volume 89, Numbers 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2022)
Contents
Editor’s Note
Photographs
On Objective Beauty
Grant McMillian
Fiction
Ribbon of Light
Christine Skolnik
From the Desk of Celeste Derry
Kevin Grauke
The Firmament
Christopher Chambers
Spirits in the Material World
Josh Shuart
Essays
I Miss Human Connection
Karina Kupp
Back to Donnie
Linda Lacy
Are We Still Soulmates?
Patricia Feinman
The Labyrinth
Heidi Fettig Parton
Poetry
The Scent of Time
Gail Tyrone
Contemporary American Poetry
Elton Glaser
Mid-December in a Classroom Waiting for Final Essays To Be Completed
Alan Britt
Autumn Emanations
Look
January
Jeanne Emmons
Burial of the Dead
Kurt Lovelace
Longing Comes To Life
Parade of Hats
Lynn McGee
On the Wings of a Bee
Keep on Living
Elena Lelia Radulescu
New Country
James Underwood
growing up in America is neurosis
Elder Gideon
We
Forsaken
Patrick Baker
The Words of My Grandmother Come From a White Mouth
The Vanity of Consequence
Anthony Albright
No Tango Dinero
Una Vida Mejor
Claudia Madrid Hernandez
Wallflower
Bharti Bansal
Driving
Craig Cotter
Another Tale from The Office Archives
Jim Daniels
The Wheel
Paul Bamberger
Lens
The Endless Beginning
A. Molotkov
Old Stories
Robert Evory
Stoves Go Well with Snow
Sharon Chmielarz
Tin Roof: An Etheree
Emory Jones
Best Month of Winter
Dan Raphael
Drive Safe
Jason Thornberry
New Year’s Eve
Nightfall
Michael Aderibigbe
preface of a riddle
Training Day
REM: A Case Study
Dorsía Smith Silva
Collective Experience
Ken Poyner
Story & Hunger
You are a wonder
J. Alan Nelson
Self Portrait with Logic and Grief
Witness
Kristy Nielsen
Getting an Airbnb in Saigon
William Brown
When We Lived at the Old Hotel
Russell Thorburn
Motel: Note to Self
Ash Wednesday
Norita Dittberner-Jax
Through our Days
Paul Freidinger
Preparing for the Sale
Ivo Drury
Hypnotizing Chickens as a Child
Cows, a Nightmare
Matthew J. Spireng
In a Modern Library
George Thomas
Breaking the Rules
Sunshine
Duane Anderson
Caffeinated Promise
Joshua Hall
Two Untitled Poems
Adam Day
Jump
No(ise is what I hear)
Jen Karetnick
Dolphins in My January
Kelly Talbot
Grandmother’s Vanity
Dawn Terpstra
Hello Lightheaded Day
Annie Przypyszny
The Mother
Speaking, Mystery, Crimson
Devon Miller-Duggan
After the Concert
Scenes Skirting the Edge
Joannie Stangeland
Bond very nearly Bond
Michelle R. Disler
Too Thorough
Courtroom
David Sapp
nature’s way
Ron Torrence
Washing My Newborn Daughter
Cecil Morris
Opposable Thumbs
Daniel Ginsburg
Good Boy
Lucas Pingel
Honey, We’re Killing the Kids
Systematic Desensitization: A Dialogue with the New Amsterdam Bottle on My Shoulder
Rachel Goodman
A Privacy
Emily Vieweg
Solitude
The Nazarene
Claire Watson
The Costs of Living
Make Like Shakespeare
Kurt Olsson
The Party Line at the Virgin Mary’s Shrine
Emily Dorff
In the Name of the Fodder, and of the Gun, and of the Wholly Dispirited
John Martino
Fifty Percent Chance
Rahab Is My Homegirl
Morning Berries
Jorge Antonio Vallejos
Consider the Example: the Example is Death
Daisy Bassen
Corner Store
Viola Lee
now she’s the size of a pomegranate
James Dewey
Goddess of Belle Vue
Christie Borely
The Night I Slept Over
Jennifer Novotney
Sun’s Constant Gladness
Mark Hurtubise
The Rival
Wing
Catherine Hardy
Tracks
Greg Kosmicki
The Blue and the Black
Percy
Alexander Wolff
Guests
John Tustin
Easing Travel Restrictions
Jim Ross
Haiku: Faint Hope
Uchimura Kaho