Issue 21

September 2025

Featured Poet: Sophie Yu
Bio
Interview
Little Cities
Learning to Float
contrapuntal in which i confront betrayal
I Knew You Before I was Born
Sun Spots

Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey
“How to clear hyperpigmentation”

Michael Boccardo
Melancholia
I, Dorothy

Todd Campbell
Cataclysm

Robert Carr
Neglected Friendship

Vanessa Chen
My Driving Instructor Says I Need to Get Comfortable With the Curb

Mark DeCarteret
The Year We Went Without Winter

Nwodo Divine
Song of Trees
The girl
museum of fattened silence

Alex Fang
Arrival

Jason Fraley
Paper Trail XXXI
[Bare limbs crackle overhead. I]
[The messiah of missing song]
[The taxidermized night bulges, ramshackle,]

Jaiden Geolingo
Mothlight
Litany In 90 Degrees
London Gray
The Living Envy the Dead and the Dead Envy the Living

Anne Hall Levine
Shape Unseen

Lana Hechtman Ayers
Aphorisms
Hope Arrives as Rain

Stacey C. Johnson
i am trying to admit this grief

Claire Keyes
At Great White Sands, New Mexico

Suhjung Kim
In the scratching

Lindsay Li
Late Summer
val·i·da·tion
interim
Mother Ode (Suspiria)
fool’s gold

Natalie Marino
After the War

Jill McCabe Johnson
Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of Time Reflections
Scientists Confirm Interplanetary Dust Clouds Orbit Earth

Karen McPherson
Hippocampus

Joshua Merchant
On Time Traveling To Accept My Father’s Apology
Two Mattresses
The Table
The First Summer

Megan Mizanty
But earth is just

Don Pomerantz
Mountains Rise

R L Powell
Exhibition without the Museum

Mykyta Ryzhykh
Any building I would start to build here turns into a prison

Veronica Tucker
What the River Forgot to Tell Itself
On the Fifth Day, the Sky Refused to Translate
Borderless

Md Mujib Ullah
Mirage Dream-Sunshine

Kate Utt
Survival Training

Amelia Yuan
Next to the pool
Unpacking
Napalm girl

Michael Zendejas
In Tenochtitlan, Someone Told Me

Yan Zhang
Self Portrait as a Sifter