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Cover art by Emma Gerigscott

Volume 16 Number 2


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POETRY

PATRYCJA HUMIENIK
we

ESTHER LIN
Out of the Mouths of Babes

MELANIE TAFEJIAN
Cobalt

ERIC WANG
Ode to Mending by Patchwork

LAUREN MALLETT
Rut

RAYMOND ANTROBUS
The Day I Pack My Stuff and Leave Home

PATRICK MILIAN
The Mediums

ELEANOR STANFORD
“And I, a person not glowing with the strength of strong lions”

CHRISTOPHER DEWEESE
Glass Beach

DORSĂŤA SMITH SILVA
What [Re](main[m]s)

NITA JADE
delay(?)

HALA ALYAN
the amygdala speaks

ANTHONY THOMAS LOMBARDI
ode to the seagull with what looks like a chicken bone in its beak but could be another seagull’s leg for all i know

MICHAEL WATERS
Elegy with Strawberries

TROY OSAKI
The Year Ka August Left the Philippines for the Last Time

ALYSSANDRA TOBIN
Two Poems

LYD HAVENS
Propranolol’s wife

CORINNE LEONG
L.A. Bildungsroman

RENNIE AMENT
Traffic in the Traffic Circle

ROSS WHITE
I Used to Like to Say Had I Only Known but I Had Every Chance to Know

ANGELA NARCISO TORRES
The Good Enough Mother

JANE MORTON
Overnight

GABRIELLE GRACE HOGAN
Time in the Love Of

JADE HIDLE
Photo Tankas 1

JANE ZWART
Adelaide

JESSICA JACOBS
Saturday Services at the Provincetown Shore

REBECCA MORTON
Two Poems

DOUG BOOTES
Hummingbird Outslick

CARLIE HOFFMAN
Yahrzeit in December

DAVID RODERICK
Letter to Jim in Syria

CALI KOPCZICK
Scry on Shine Road

HEATHER CAHOON
Three Poems

MATTHEW TUCKNER
Endangered Species

JASMINE KHALIQ
oblivion/wild room

AMORAK HUEY
Warning

RACHEL MANNHEIMER
Knotweed

JEWEL CAO
Address to the Moon and You

JENESSA VANZUTPHEN
Two Poems

GEN DEL RAYE
To the Person Who Painted ShinitaiUnder the Cedar Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, MN

KATIE CONDON
You’ve got to stay if I take you off your leash, kapeesh? I say to my dog as we pull up to the trailhead in Amherst.

MOIRA WALSH
Two Poems

SORAYA QAHWAJI
Self-Defense

CAITLIN ROACH
Witness Statement

SUPHIL LEE PARK
There

NANYA JHINGRAN
Interregnum

LISA LOW
Forty Years

RONDA PISZK BROATCH
Between Ghosts We Walk with Bees on Our Shirts

LIS SANCHEZ
The Bait Shack

AVIGAYL SHARP
Walking Through the Rose Garden

BRENDAN SHERRY
Two Poems

DON BOGEN
A Leap

JACQUELINE BALDERRAMA
Particles

CINDY JUYOUNG OK
This Morning

KAVEH BASSIRI
Assassin

KIM GARCIA
Little Destructions

BANAH EL GHADBANAH
Anahita

ELEE KRALJII GARDINER
from Dark Under

TARIK DOBBS
Dear Pre-Queer Lover,

INA CARIĂ‘O
my childhood is a country of thieves—

CAROLINE M. MAR
S–––– Valley

ESSAYS

ERIKA MEITNER
The Quiet Part: On Poetry, Race, Mothering and Silence

NKOSI NKULULEKO
On Arranging Grammar: Regarding Tyehimba Jess, Herbert Woodward Martin, & the Double Consciousness of Formal Constraint

FEATURES

Crossings

RAJIV MOHABIR
from Cruel, Cruel the Name

Presenting

KARLA MARAVILLA
Caulked by the Linoleum Roses I Read You the Song of Dimples

How To

JANE WONG

Touch

I Call It Joy

JAIDYANNA PODSOBINSKI
The Sky’s Blueness & Mine

FEATURED ARTIST

EMMA GERIGSCOT