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Volume 19 Number 2

CONTENTS

POETRY

CARLIE HOFFMAN

The Townspeople Contemplate Eurydice

ISAAC PICKELL

We demand options that taste like movement

AISHVARYA ARORA

Mr. Time

I am not trying to be a man how

MRITYUNJAY MOHAN

Trans Anatomy in Sacrilegious Terms

JENNY QI

Cat’s Cradle

BO HEE MOON

Letters to Omma—Ceremony of Mercy

KATHY FAGAN

Samhain

Alone and Not in the Belle Époque

STEPHANIE BURT & MARA HAMPSON

Little Wobbly Wolf Cubs Their Whole Lives

JOHN OKRENT

A Thrill

The River Road

ARAH KO

In the Year of Peace

Whatever We Began As We Became Something Else

NOAH FALCK

Unknown History

A Face in the Crowd in the Photograph in My Wallet in the City of Complete Strangers

CHENGRU HE

Postcards in Jueju

LAUREN MACKINNON

Passerine

JENNIFER FRANKLIN

On the Day We Had Tickets for the Rothko Retrospective

SHARA LESSLEY

Vision: Alicia Alonso

LAETITIA KEOK

Good Grief

Abecedarian Against Time

SHABNAM PIRYAEI

sun scrapes Europe from the caravan of kindergartner ghosts sun remembers everything

AMANDA AUCHTER

They’re Cutting Down Our Bamboo

MARGOT KAHN

Wild One

Rimrock

RAJIV MOHABIR

New York Floriography

MALGORZATA LEBDA
(trans. Mira Rosenthal)

Geography

LUIZA FLYNN-GOODLETT

Prayer

MATTHEW TUCKNER

Mimesis

Mimesis

MARTA SANZ
(trans. Sam Krieg)

[From the wall sprouts, . . . ]

LAURA DA’

The Fort Conundrum

EMET EZELL

Another Flight through Widowed Grass

ROSEBUD BEN-ONI

88Ra :: Halo Undarkness My ( :: Glowing End ::)

MARIE LUNDQUIST
(trans. Miriam Akervall)

Untitled excerpt from Astrakanerna (The Garden of the Dead)

CARLING MCMANUS

Bathing on Sunday

ANJA MEI-PING KUIPERS

Story with My Mother as Sea Creature

On the Phone, My Mother Tells Me

TOPAZ WINTERS

Meet Me at Our Spot

LEONA SEVICK

Coriolis Illusion

SAM HERSCHEL WEIN

Ready, Set, Arugula!

JEFFREY MORGAN

Hold on I’m Trying to De-Puff My Face

PALOMA CHEN 
(trans. Julia Conner)

I Want

JUJ E LEPE

Laundry Day

Portrait of a Daughter

DARIUS ATEFAT-PECKHAM

Salt-Soaked & Rinsed Clean Ghazal

Cry-Baby Ghazal

JULIA KOLCHINSKY

Why write another poem about the moon?

SARAH BROWNING

We could not kill the cat–

D. A. POWELL

Catwoman’s Clause

Boy Grows Up

SA WHITLEY

Caring for Fuchsia

DANIEL PHAIR

On the Collection and Display of Certain Species of Moth

Valletta

KALEHUA KIM

Dearest/Visiting New York City/Your Feet

QUINTON OKORO

the fog at three a.m. as I thought about ending things

JENNE HSIEN PATRICK

Rice

MAGDALENA ARIAS VÁSQUEZ

Camera Obscura

Camera Lucida

OMAR RAMADAN

And they fed the sea first

JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL

Gold Cloud

AMOGHA

Poem upon the Phonetic Map of the Mouth

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FEATURES

CROSSINGS

DANTE ALIGHIERI & CRISTOFORO LANDINO
(trans. Clare Louise Harmon)

Four Cantos

IN PROGRESS

NANCY HUGGETT

Caregiver as . . . 

CORTNEY LAMAR CHARLESTON

It’s Important I Remember

PRESENTING

DEVI SASTRY

Place Name: Kozhikode

HOW TO

V. PENELOPE PELIZZON

Drive on the Wrong Side of the Road

I CALL IT JOY

ARTWORK

LUKAS & ZOË PHELAN