Editor’s Note
Fiction
Freelancing
Stan Hollingworth
The Cure for Smallpox
Florence MacDonald
War
Simon Howells
Lying Down
James Sallis
The End
David F. Young
Essays
For Everyday Life
Ndaba Sibanda
West Coast Weather
Grace Kearney
Between Us and Them
Aqeel Ahmad
Terrible People
Thomas Heise
Previous History
Lea Page
The Reporter
Steve Slavin
My Mother and Middlemarch
Ruth Schemmel
Reviews
A Review of Textual Rivalries: Jesus, Midrash, and Kabbalah
Sharon Carson
Review Essay: The Order of Myths and Descendant
Gayatri Devi
Poetry
Cakewalk through Kudzu
In the Spirit of Dorothy Dandridge—
The White Negro Girl’s Diary
by Kathy Z. Price
He Killed the Child He Loved
Landscape with Boy and Gun
Thinking of Odysseus’s Wife, I Learn to Wait
by Helen Marie Casey
A child’s hand
by Stefan Hertsmans (translated by Arno Bohlmeijer)
Hello Life
by Phebe Rasch (translated by Arno Bohlmeijer)
The Turnip Queen
by Ann Leamon
Rockabilly
by Audra Burwell
In memoriam. James Dickey
by Steven Lebow
Handing Down
by Jim Tilley
Third Week of June
Carrying Memory
by Eric Marland
Cat’s Meow
The Rain
by Richard Weaver
On Finding a Dead Deer in My Backyard
A Morning’s Walk
by Nolo Segundo
I pull teeth
The Garden
Circle Ode
Everything Will Be Like This Again
by Lucy Western
Bird on a Wire
Osteolights
by Dana Curtis
Inner
by Stephen McConnell
Church, Ostuni
Byzantine
by Miriam O’Neal
Liberation: Shiv Tattvy
Liberation: Summit
The Goddess Incarnates
Cow Dust Hour
Emancipation
by Nidhi Agrawal
Homeless Camps along I-240 East
In Decimals
by Holly Cian
Fossil, OR
by Gerald Wagoner
Coal Camp
by Elizabeth Pope
September’s Start
by Kakie Pate
preface of a riddle
Training Day
REM: A Case Study
by Dorsía Smith Silva
Memento Mori
by David Melville
Self-Portrait of the Expatriate in the Time of Anxiety
by Maxwell Tang
Wounds That Kill, Would Us All
Break, 2020
by Sean William Carrero
Sonnet full of knowing
by William Joel
Sunsets Like a God Damn Painting
by Andrew Wittstadt
Rite of Passage
Lost
by David R. Solheim
Chill Greta, Chill
Reflexology
In Response to My Students Who Still Don’t Understand Irony
Ode to Sadness
by Candice Kelsey
Red cherries (Italy, 1943)
A taste of heaven
Ready
by Laura Zucca-Scott
Against the Wall
Mirrors
by Neal Zirn
Past Flight
Gone
by Holly Day