​Cover Art: Jess Dugan

Editor’s Note: JOHN BONANNI  

Ladybug
Larvae
by TERRY BODINE 

What We Hoped For
Any Thing
by LAWRENCE BRIDGES  

Stains
by ALI BRYAN

Roodt Eylandt
by CATHLEEN CALBERT

Du Quoin, Illinois
Herrin
Store
Note
Chute
by MARTHA COLLINS 

Dowses Beach
Book of the Dead
by TOM DALEY

Agriculture Has Come to This
Mountain Laurel in Mason
You Consider the Apples
by WILLIAM DORESKI

sonnet for what astounds me
by grace (ge) gilbert

Funhouse Year
Apple
Deception Pass
by AMANDA HARTZELL

Oh, and thank you for the bail money
The Gerrymanderer
Sustaining Member
Recoverables
by GREG HISCHAK

Eviction
Queer Art
by WALTER HOLLAND

The Pool
by CHRIS HOSEA

Balikbayan Abakadarian
by RESI IBAÑEZ

Birthday Boy
by PEDRO INIGUEZ

Ishmael
Ishmael’s Mirror
Liquid Chalk
Chalk
by CHARLES KELL

Missing Hinges in the Living Room
As a Figure Left Outside
In Situ
by DIONISSIOS KOLLIAS

Reading Comprehension
by MONIQUE LABAN

recurring holocaustic nightmares #10
Lucem Diffundo
The Moon Does Not Judge
Coy Koi
The Bachelor with His Brides in Drag Even
by JOHN LANDRY

Ars Poetica
Blind Date
Do Not Cross
Ars Poetica
Political Poem
by TIMOTHY LIU

Moon Pond
Twilit
What Grief Underlies
Blackfish Creek Prayer
Praise the Dark
by SHEILA SINEAD MCGUINNESS

Instant Coffee and Vanilla Wafers after Dinner Swans
Etcetera
by PATRIC PEPPER

How we carefully approach
The most dangerous species
Another word for futility
Gone, still gone
When you reach a certain age
The molar’s attack
Sticking hope in the ground
by MARGE PIERCY

More Directions for the Kidnapped Child
First Prayer from a Taken Child
Mad for Monsters
The Kidnapped Child
by NICHOLAS SAMARAS

Man with Cups and Saucers
     after “Untitled,” photograph by John Dugdale
Illusion
     after “Farmhouse Inverted in Venini Vase,” photograph by John Dugdale
Three Souls
     after Three Easter Lilies, photograph by John Dugdale
by MATTHEW J. SPIRENG

Eruptions in the Orchard
by LYNNE VITI

August 14th
by CINDY ZHAO

Grow Your Own Woman
by AYLA ZURAW-FRIEDLAND