Editor’s Note

Raymond Hammond

A WEEK OR SO LATER

Grace Zabriskie

I’LL BE HERE ON MY BACK PORCH

Dorianne Laux

AT HER GAY UNCLE’S 40th

Michael Montlack

IMAGINARY ICE CREAM SHOPS WITH REAL CONES IN THEM

Macaulay Glynn

MULATTA

Tanya L. Young

DEAR JOHN ASHBERY

Nicole Santalucia

THE MAN, NOT LIKE THE FISH

Francine Witte

I AM THE SAME

Dheepa Maturi

LEARNING TO BE LEFT

Dion O’Reilly

ELEGY

Bianca Alyssa Pérez

IT’S LAUNDRY DAY AND MOM’S OUT OF QUARTERS

Kimilee Norman-Goins

THANK YOU TO BLACK QUARTERBACKS

Matthew Johnson

THE FANNING MASTER

Pablo Medina

THE BABOON WAR-GOD BABI SPEAKS THROUGH A VENTRILOQUIST’S DUMMY TO JUSTIN ALTER

Marc Tretin

THE GOSPEL OF THE MIRACULOUS PURGE

Jenna Lê

VISITOR

Clint Margrave

SUDDENLY WINTER

Sheree La Puma

ON THE RIVER’S SLATE

Joseph Hutchison

WHEN IT RAINS ON MY BLOCK

Raki Jordan

AFTER I FIND MY DAUGHTER’S BETTA DEAD

Scott Ferry

IN THE AUTOPSY I AM BOTH CORONER AND CORPSE

Ellen June Wright

THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF REASON

Stefan Lovasik

DROPPED OFF, PICKED UP

Jim Daniels

“WE ARE ALL HOPPER PAINTINGS NOW”

Alexis Rhone Fancher

DAUGHTER

Jessica Cordes

CIGARETTE-LIKE AND RED

Roy Bentley

SAY GOD IS THE TOUGH IN A PRISON YARD

Matthew E. Henry

FIELD HOSPITALS

Cynthia Atkins

CROSSROADS

John Amen

POLITENESS IS A SHAPE ON THE BORDER

Diane Alters

POEM FOR HAROLD

Joel Allegretti

LATE SUMMER LETTER TO AMY FROM CHEYENNE

Jeffrey Alfier

ELEGY FOR ART

Kevin Pilkington

THE WORLD AS RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINE

Kelly Vande Plasse

raha

Monique Ferrell