Cover Art: Jess Dugan
Editor’s Note: JOHN BONANNI
Ladybug
Larvae
by TERRY BODINE
What We Hoped For
Any Thing
by LAWRENCE BRIDGES
Stains
by ALI BRYAN
Roodt Eylandt
by CATHLEEN CALBERT
Du Quoin, Illinois
Herrin
Store
Note
Chute
by MARTHA COLLINS
Dowses Beach
Book of the Dead
by TOM DALEY
Agriculture Has Come to This
Mountain Laurel in Mason
You Consider the Apples
by WILLIAM DORESKI
sonnet for what astounds me
by grace (ge) gilbert
Funhouse Year
Apple
Deception Pass
by AMANDA HARTZELL
Oh, and thank you for the bail money
The Gerrymanderer
Sustaining Member
Recoverables
by GREG HISCHAK
Eviction
Queer Art
by WALTER HOLLAND
The Pool
by CHRIS HOSEA
Balikbayan Abakadarian
by RESI IBAÑEZ
Birthday Boy
by PEDRO INIGUEZ
Ishmael
Ishmael’s Mirror
Liquid Chalk
Chalk
by CHARLES KELL
Missing Hinges in the Living Room
As a Figure Left Outside
In Situ
by DIONISSIOS KOLLIAS
Reading Comprehension
by MONIQUE LABAN
recurring holocaustic nightmares #10
Lucem Diffundo
The Moon Does Not Judge
Coy Koi
The Bachelor with His Brides in Drag Even
by JOHN LANDRY
Ars Poetica
Blind Date
Do Not Cross
Ars Poetica
Political Poem
by TIMOTHY LIU
Moon Pond
Twilit
What Grief Underlies
Blackfish Creek Prayer
Praise the Dark
by SHEILA SINEAD MCGUINNESS
Instant Coffee and Vanilla Wafers after Dinner Swans
Etcetera
by PATRIC PEPPER
How we carefully approach
The most dangerous species
Another word for futility
Gone, still gone
When you reach a certain age
The molar’s attack
Sticking hope in the ground
by MARGE PIERCY
More Directions for the Kidnapped Child
First Prayer from a Taken Child
Mad for Monsters
The Kidnapped Child
by NICHOLAS SAMARAS
Man with Cups and Saucers
after “Untitled,” photograph by John Dugdale
Illusion
after “Farmhouse Inverted in Venini Vase,” photograph by John Dugdale
Three Souls
after Three Easter Lilies, photograph by John Dugdale
by MATTHEW J. SPIRENG
Eruptions in the Orchard
by LYNNE VITI
August 14th
by CINDY ZHAO
Grow Your Own Woman
by AYLA ZURAW-FRIEDLAND
Editor’s Note: JOHN BONANNI
Ladybug
Larvae
by TERRY BODINE
What We Hoped For
Any Thing
by LAWRENCE BRIDGES
Stains
by ALI BRYAN
Roodt Eylandt
by CATHLEEN CALBERT
Du Quoin, Illinois
Herrin
Store
Note
Chute
by MARTHA COLLINS
Dowses Beach
Book of the Dead
by TOM DALEY
Agriculture Has Come to This
Mountain Laurel in Mason
You Consider the Apples
by WILLIAM DORESKI
sonnet for what astounds me
by grace (ge) gilbert
Funhouse Year
Apple
Deception Pass
by AMANDA HARTZELL
Oh, and thank you for the bail money
The Gerrymanderer
Sustaining Member
Recoverables
by GREG HISCHAK
Eviction
Queer Art
by WALTER HOLLAND
The Pool
by CHRIS HOSEA
Balikbayan Abakadarian
by RESI IBAÑEZ
Birthday Boy
by PEDRO INIGUEZ
Ishmael
Ishmael’s Mirror
Liquid Chalk
Chalk
by CHARLES KELL
Missing Hinges in the Living Room
As a Figure Left Outside
In Situ
by DIONISSIOS KOLLIAS
Reading Comprehension
by MONIQUE LABAN
recurring holocaustic nightmares #10
Lucem Diffundo
The Moon Does Not Judge
Coy Koi
The Bachelor with His Brides in Drag Even
by JOHN LANDRY
Ars Poetica
Blind Date
Do Not Cross
Ars Poetica
Political Poem
by TIMOTHY LIU
Moon Pond
Twilit
What Grief Underlies
Blackfish Creek Prayer
Praise the Dark
by SHEILA SINEAD MCGUINNESS
Instant Coffee and Vanilla Wafers after Dinner Swans
Etcetera
by PATRIC PEPPER
How we carefully approach
The most dangerous species
Another word for futility
Gone, still gone
When you reach a certain age
The molar’s attack
Sticking hope in the ground
by MARGE PIERCY
More Directions for the Kidnapped Child
First Prayer from a Taken Child
Mad for Monsters
The Kidnapped Child
by NICHOLAS SAMARAS
Man with Cups and Saucers
after “Untitled,” photograph by John Dugdale
Illusion
after “Farmhouse Inverted in Venini Vase,” photograph by John Dugdale
Three Souls
after Three Easter Lilies, photograph by John Dugdale
by MATTHEW J. SPIRENG
Eruptions in the Orchard
by LYNNE VITI
August 14th
by CINDY ZHAO
Grow Your Own Woman
by AYLA ZURAW-FRIEDLAND