Poetry

Issue 41
Epileptic

by Mary Morris.
“Within the body—/ a ghost // Ground unfastened / Contradicted space…”

Issue 27 Our Fragile Environment
Surrender, A Prayer for My Mother

by Lindsay Wilson.
“Listen, dark one, as the sun sets, / the boxelder beetles come down / from the west wall to fly back…”

Issue 40
Yellowthroat

by Eileen Elizabeth Waggoner.
“Some of y’all pray to God / I pray to the yellow warblers / and their frail whistling / on wildfire winds…”

Relic

by Stacy Nigliazzo.
“Quietly, they concede, /
leaving pennies / at your feet.”

Issue 27 Our Fragile Environment
Irrigation

by Martha Serpas.
“we steal water when we make rain, the way / everything I have is from somewhere else, / from someone else, what I am…”

Issue 3
We Are Afraid

by Jennifer L. Knox.
“We are afraid / of junior high school students and the nauseating things / they say among their own kind…”

Issue 33 Finding Home
Distribution

by Jenny Qi.
“Scatter my ashes in the ocean, /
my father instructed…”

Issue 41
Where Do Genetic Mutations Come From?

by Linda Harris Dolan.
“after the pink peonies die, their heads droop, / petals begin their falling, but for days, days / the flower-heads remain mostly intact…”

EVOCATION (STREETS)

by Jeanette Clough.
“I am surrounded by streets / half dark, half lit, by high rises / sheathed in metal and glass…”