Volume 90, Numbers 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2023)
Contents
About the Artist
Editor’s Note
Fiction
Little Fingers
Molly Weisgrau
That Type of Girl
Evelyn Maguire
Straight to the Heart
Christine Kwon
How to Write Good or The Bad Story Ever
Max Blue
Essays
The Rock
Adam Szetela
Reading
Danica Vukićević / translation by John Cox
The Good Red Road of Charging Bear
Clifford Canku and John Peacock
Poetry
All You Need
Explain What a Capybara Is
Packaging
Tina Gross
Talking with the Dead
Meredith Merritt
Plateau, Two Rearviews
Lisa Coffman
Ah, It Was a Great Ride
Dandelions
Dennis Herrell
Ghazal for Tinfoil Dinners
Spell for the Dead Bird We Turned into Taxidermy
Rachel Layton
Mother’s Voice
Jonathan Chibuike Ukah
Coda
Brenton Booth
Bloodwork
Kenneth Pobo
Dreams
Warning
David Romanda
Company of Strangers
Meeting with the Red Lobster Birthday Club after Covid
Gaby Bedetti
In my creek
Anne Freier
Her Toast Untouched
Thomas Elson
As He Loved Life
Adele Gardner
Working Out the Kinks
Legacy
September
Carol Hamilton
U.J.
In a Low Mood
John S. Eustis
The Fifth Season
Terry Savoie
A Tale of Two Cemeteries: The Old
Bette Nelson
Tiny Garden
Christmas in Purgatory
Nicholas Kriefall
Deathbed Insomnia
Tamarack Cameo
Rich Heller
Writing My Obit
Like Peas, Like Whales
Yvette Viets Flaten
How to Survive the Apocalypse
Back to School
Lori D'Angelo
On Passing
Tanque R. Jones
Heartbeats
Mick and Keef
Tony McAndrew
the light scratches and waits
girl at the small funeral
Livio Farallo
Your Bones Shall Not Be the Caller of My Prayers
Alise Palmer
Weary
Peace Ufedojo Haruna
Catch-19
Shirin M. Zadeth
Everything We Love Disappears
Lisa C. Taylor
In the train
Marseilles
Ivan de Monbrison
Amarillo City Transit
Bud Sturguess
My Father’s Final Poem
Jason Visconti
Aubade: A Murder of Crows
Frederick Wilbur
Powder Blue Cadillac
The Rescue
Feeding Horses
David Salner
A galaxy of entropies
Roseline Mgbodichinma
As If
Ashes
Margot Block
This Simple Night: A Rondeau
Caleb Delos-Santos
After the Vet’s Diagnosis
When I Move from This House
Laura Sweeney
June
Judy Lorenzen
Once neighbors
There was a rainbow here earlier
Michael Scott Burau
After the second date
David Woodward
End of Semester
Heidi Naylor
Zoo Mom
Target Mom
Easy Mac Mom
Meg Thompson
All I know about an enlarged heart is how to carry it
Chisom Okafor
Relationships
Andrea Moorhead
Girlhood
E. A. Gregor
Fable
Russel Swensen
As His Daughter proceeds
The work continues
Carolyn Arcabascio
Friendship
Night Works from the Valley
Tricia Knoll
9 a.m. on a Friday
Beck Natale
Something Fishy
Autumn Rain
Leslie Schultz
A Mudskipper’s Love Song
Sher Ting
Last Letter Home
Ja Sauvageau
Jumping into thin air to save my self-importance
An Grace
Riverstone
Natalie Callum
Devotion
You Are the Second Person
You Know This Too
Jessie Raymundo
prelude to canaan surging with patriotic ghosts
one late noon in Palestine
Sodïq Oyèkànmí
Idyllwild during Supply Chain Crisis
Love It or Leave It: Stamp Acts 257 Years Later to
Protect Democracies?
Outside Dollar Store Shame on Us
Gerard Sarnat
Wealth is War!
3 Verdicts
John Poff
Two Nights Under Rough Wool
John Schneider
Redemption Moon
Sadeedeh Zare Yazdi / translation: Ali Asadollahi
Wounded hourse
Shanin Shirzadi / translation: Ali Asadollahi
Laws
Dream feed
Trust
Grit
Max Henderson
What I Learned from Teaching High School
for a Day
Laine Derr
Redemption
Robert Pfeiffer
Being Alive
To Keep Unfolding
Love is a Good Thing
Charlene Langfur
you can always taste to see if something’s bleeding
Beech Rubble
Gasoline Alley Days
I Forgot to Remember to Forget
Barry Curtis
A Kitchen
Danae Wright
Cliff Notes for Cats
Julie Marie Wade
Survival
Miranda Wyatt
I Hate My Bladder
Ahrend Torrey
If I Wrote Poems Like I Grocery Shop
John Grey
It’s Come To This
Joan Mazza
In Nueva York
Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena
Bookmark
Andrew Vogel
Paula Drive Notebook
Scott McDaniel
Effing up the Ineffable
Composition
Luke Hankins
Aural/Oral
Susana H. Case
La Cometa Amarilla
A Sensation of Infinity
Geometry or Physics or Maybe Both or Maybe Neither
Patrick Holian
Liar Acrostic
Marjorie Power
Coccyx
spoke too soon
Mary E. Croy
Stunned Surprise
Alan Atlany
Divers
Samuel Amadon
A Branch in Her Hands
Lenny DellaRocca
Wanting to Call this Poem Clerestory, I Settle on
Collateral Damage
Late April
Shinrin-Yoku,
January
Erin Wilson
On the Carousel
Ray Greenblatt
Nesting in Blue Gardens
Sunbeams in St. Peter’s Basilica
Aubrey Roemmich
Peace is a Process
D. A. Hickman
Lost Pond
Phil Huffy
Corn
Okra
Sweet Potatoes
Patrice Boyer Claeys
Dimmit County Soil Management
There Were Different Sirens
Henry Cherry
Eulogy for Miley
Hendersonville, NC
Danny Barbare
The World’s Turned Upside Down
Grandma’s Secret
Allene Nichols
Keepsake
White Stones
Jeanine Stevens
Indiana Summer
fireflies for the first time
my father’s toothache
Nikki Ummel
Birds I Have Known
Alexis Ivy
Frosty Morning
Matthew Brennan
Wheat Stubble
Ben Schwartz
Sunrise at the Shore in South Caroline
Michael Fulop
After a long winter
Driftwood
Lucie McKee
More Than Four
Jim Muyres
fugitive: no address
fugitive: stings
fugitive: snapshots of rabbits
Lisa Roullard
The Cruelest Month
Worse Than Nothing
Carson Pytell
From the East It Lows
Devon Brock
The Pest
Becky Parker
Three Untitled Poems
Jerome Berglund
Poems in Tsotsil and Spanish by Enriqueta Lunez
Enriqueta Lunez / translations by Jacklyn Kahafer-Burke, Thomas Lawrence, Amanda Miles, Bailey Spaulding, and Karly Walker
Above a Now Dragged Away
To Scale
Nathan Whiting
