Issue 16
July 2023
Featured Poet: Adam Day
Bio
Interview
A Kind of Speech
Aubade
Elegy
Elegy II
Shared Breath
An Ending
A Bodily Way of Knowing
Featured Artist: Lynsee Sardell
Artist Statement
Fix
HoiAn
Incheon
Running Salmon
Spot
Threat!
The Way Home
Poetry
Elisabeth Adwin Edwards
Death wrote a poem, and I lost it
Kathleen E. Casey
Bashar al-Assad: The Sand Refuses To Speak Your Name
Mutant White
Ariana D. Den Bleyker
Here is Where I Wish to Stay
Dawn Dupler
When Neighbors Catch Fire
Joanne Durham
What am I?
Jamie Gannon
Note to Cyd
Ed Gaudet
Origami
David A. Goodrum
Doctored Phrases
Other Duties as Assigned
Justin Groppuso-Cook
White Spring
My Body Becomes a Greenhouse
Fred Johnson
Joy
Stacey C. Johnson
Holding Patterns
Marj Hahne
His/Hers
Elegy for Chuck Yeager
Bill Hollands
what has been
Stefanie Kirby
Capacities
Quickening
Jill Khoury
Not my first time on the carousel eating a cake of thorns
Daniel Kraft
Memoir of a Psychiatric Hospitalization
Susan L. Leary
Pseudo Myth
Daytime Manifesto
A Student Says ‘Empathy Doesn’t Make Sense’
Ariel Machell
Questions Without Resolution in the Wake of Bearable Loss
Michelle Menting
Osteopenia or Upon Learning You Have Bird Bones
Kate Millar
There is no singular moment
Judith H. Montgomery
If
How to Lop a Pineapple
Clarke Owens
Now
Callista Pitman
Daylight savings time
love poem to fall friendships
Doug Ramspeck
Solace
Night Dance
Rented Rooms
Erica Reid
Preface
Lucinda Sabino
The Rice Candy Factory
Mother as Dervish
Sticks and Stones
Prison Rules, Women’s Prison Museum, Viet Nam
John Schneider
Self-Portrait as Pompei
Mary Ellen Talley
Wiped Out by Caring
Gina Williams
Dear Invader
Consider that Failure is a Synonym for _____
Shannon K. Winston
X
Every Day the Girl Prepares for Death
Jesse Wolfe
Spacewalk
Maggie Yang
Sweetbitter