Issue 2





POEMS

GAIL WHITE
In Bed With Auden
A Woman of 77

DAVID ROMANDA
A New Direction

DS MAOLALAI
Another predicted lockdown

KENNETH POBO
Thirty Years
Fits

JENNIFER LAGIER
Bird in a Bush

DUDLEY STONE
Untitled (4-5-23)
Floss
Kneel

MICHELLE MCMILLAN-HOLIFIELD
Camerawoman: Birmingham, Alabama (Sloss Furnace Ghosts)

SHANNON FROST GREENSTEIN
When Your DBT Workbook Becomes a Family Heirloom... Or, Attempts at Stopping Intergenerational Trauma

DIANE WEBSTER
Swarms Like

TIMOTHY DODD
Highway Haunt
Neighborhood Nightfall
Black Roost

LEE CLARK ZUMPE
Rusty Nail Tavern

ROBERT BEVERIDGE
Fleuve des Rêves
Petition

SARAH CAULFIELD
Your Ghosts are Wreathed in Amber

JULEIGH HOWARD-HOBSON
L’ultima Rosa

PATRICIA MURPHY
Life’s a Dress and Then You Die

MITZI DORTON
Equinox

DEANN JORDAN
Winter Solstice

R. NEMO HILL
Willow

JEN ROUSE
Commute
What Color are the Trees

JULIE KANE

JOHN RILEY
No Sister, No Brother

BRUCE MCRAE
Questionnaire
Ode To A Typewriter

DONALD ZIRILLI
Love is a Strange Country
The Opening

PETER MLADINIC
Psalm of Intimacy

HOLLIE DUGAS

SYLVIA FOSTER
I’m gonna drink about you for a while

JANNA SCHLEDORN
Moses’ Sister Visits the Dermatologist
On Recovery

JOHN RUSSELL
[moon high in the sky]

MATT QUINN
A fairy-tale ending

JOLEE G. PASSERINI
Star Map

TERRI COHLENE
Last Ride
Finally, I Become What You Always Wanted
 


STORIES

TERRY SANVILLE
Gerrit’s Tremendous Ride

DEANN JORDAN
Willing Lightning

JASON ALLEN
Doppelgänger

EDUARDO M. CORVERA II
Their Daughter Fortuna

KEVIN NOVALINA
Unstable Frames

TIMOTHY DODD

JADE MAH-VIERLING
The Carousel

JOHN BRANTINGHAM