Issue 18
August 2024
Featured Poet: Stefanie Kirby
Bio
Interview
Daughter Speaks
I’m Told the Uterus Has a Mouth
Mother Speaks
Resistance
Security
Window Ode II
Window Ode III
Poetry
Carolyn Adams
Promise
Audric Adonteng
our pot runneth over
JC Alfier
His Eurydice of Chimney Creek, Virginia
Rebecca Anderson
Disavowal
Book of the Maybe-Living
Cindy Buchanan
The Weight of Water
B.J. Buckley
Spatial Data Sets
Vikki C.
The Unavoidable Fifth Season
Janine Certo
Gnaw
Sarah Daly
Paper Dolls
Matt Dennison
Moon Chef
Snap Shot
Melissa Eleftherion
decelerated incipience
Dagne Forrest
Uncertain, a.k.a. Poem Beginning with a Line by Sylvia Plath
Lauren Frey
Rim
Robbie Gamble
November
Peter Grandbois
Let the record show
To go anywhere one must first go back
Christine E. Hamm
Corralles, NM
Mary Beth Hines
Sister
Bill Hollands
there’s a coldness in me
puzzle
Yuyuan Huang
Smoke Signal
Snake lips
Arvinder Kaur Johri
When the Ghosts Settled In
The River Did Not Take Her
Jennifer Mills Kerr
A Revelation of Trees
Haley King
Continued Survival
Emotions Are for Children
Amalie Kwassman
Why the Sky Went Blank
Jim LaMontagne
Elm (Ulmus Americana)
Mercedes Lawry
The Lookout
For Lack of a Refuge
Noah Leventhal
Overture
Cartography
Malene Lotz
Beach House
Surrender
Chosen Nightshade
Ophelia Monet
Wicked Things
Jagged Points
Judith H. Montgomery
My Husband Gasps, and Must Be Helped from the Dinner Table
Sati Mookherjee
Inversions: Doha ↔ Sortha
Matthew Murrey
Sgr A
Doug Ramspeck
Three Omens in Fourteen Days
Mel Ruth
Memento Mori
Rikki Santer
Collector
John Schneider
Dust Devils
J.Y. Tan
Looking Up Taoism on Wikipedia
drug of choice
Jeanne Yu
Remembering
Reviews and Interviews
Toti O’Brien reviews Liminal by Marina deBellagente LaPalma
Tiffany Troy reviews A Cha Chaan Teng That Does Not Exist by Derek Chung
Tiffany Troy reviews Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? by Cyrus Cassells