CONTENTS

poetry

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrá, nautical: reef dweller

First day of mourning :: We enter the time of fires

Elisávet Makridis, ABECEDARIAN SEA SNOT SCULPTURE GARDEN

YIAYIÁ X & THE GREAT SALT LICK

Dorinda Wegener, The Most Melancholic Key

M. Cynthia Cheung, The Yijing: a pandemic apocrypha

Anna Newman, de terre eleccione or: soil quality or: how abundance comes from the Body

Arnisha Royston, Golden Shovel #2

Liz Pino Sparks, Pink Jakarta Almonds

Jerry Xiao, Exile

Raymond Luczak, GHOST GRANDMA

.chisaraokwu. , Woma(n) without wom(b)* (wom mata)

Linette Marie Allen, A Talent for Duck

SAPPHO REPORTING, SOMEWHERE IN TEXAS

Anthony Thomas Lombardi, excerpt from fragments from Amy Winehouse’s stepwork journal

Mackenzie Schubert Polonyi Donnelly, Dear Hygieia

Kathryn Hargett-Hsu, excerpt from Consultation Notes: Overdose, Little Flames

Caleb A.P. Parker, Three Reconstructions of an Anonymous Early 21st Century Poem 

Whaling Triquetra

Nadine Hitchiner, Piano Quai1

Felix Valentino de la Luz Salmoran, Vessel

Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto, Monologue Writtern After Watching a Robin Lift from a Tree Branch

translation

Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau trans. by Dominique Russell,  

Translator’s Note

[One good chop of the guillotine]

Juana Peñate Montejo translated by Carol Rose Little and Charlotte Friedman,

Translator’s Note

Dance of the Rain

Dragonflies

B.A. Van Sise and Lokosh, Nothingness

Edith Södergran translated by CD Eskilson, Sorrow

At the Shore

Tamara Grosso translated by Claudia Nuñez de Ibieta, More Fragile Than a Childhood or a Balloon

Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa translated by Guillermo Rebollo-Gil,

one thinks of herself as starkly confronting the real

certain trees, I read,

Sara Shagufta translated by Sabyn Javeri, The Second Cliff

fiction

Audrey Bauman, The River

Jessica Powell, Middle School Math

nonfiction

Bella Koschalk, Reanimation

Melissa Cistaro, thirty-nine hours

Kathryn Kysar, Black Asphalt

Aditi Natasha Kini, baby doll!

 Lauren Woods, Imagine (with Difficulty)

Ellie Black, Rebecca

art

Andrea Hellman, Artist’s Statement

Our Lady of the Earth and Sky

Dance Floor

My Colors I Give You

And Heal My Survivor Heart

 Julie Lee, Artist’s Statement

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Raye Hendrix, Artist’s Statement

Deliquescence #1

Deliquescence #2

Planetary

Crystallarium

Queen Susan #5