No. 43 Summer 2024

John Blair
Aubade for Ash Wednesday
Ten Thousand Starlings Dreaming

Gina Franco
Separation of the Part from the Whole

Vandana Khanna
Dear O—

Lynne Knight
The Hour of the Wolf 

Nida Sophasarun
The Paperback Room
Violent Femmes

Rick Barot
Nectarine
Here

Christopher Childers
There

Dan Rosenberg
I’m Not Saying We’re Good

Dan Pinkerton
Lunch Break Anointment

Jess Smith
Trophy Wife
Best Dressed

Charles Doersch
Playa Los Muertos

Jehanne Dubrow
Conchology
“Tragedy, Ecstasy, Doom, and So On”

Michael Bazzett
Let’s Walk the Fields
3 AM

Richard Jackson
The Tides

Frank Paino
The Agnostic’s Prayer

Angela Narciso Torres
Fennel
Love Language

Susan Blackwell Ramsey
Milk Tongue

Bobby C. Rogers
Substitute Umpire

Eleanor Stanford
I too had a childhood

Wesley Rothman
Seventy Years After the War

Patty Crane
A Slow Kind of Sudden

Jacob Boyd
Strophic Cascade [The woods you know. The woods are owned.]
<Strophic Cascade [Between the storm inside and the storm window,]

Matthew Buckley Smith
The Soft Black Stars
Overheard at a Reading

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