
SCR Issue 53.2 includes poetry by Stella Wong, and Sheila Black, with fiction by Marlin Barton, Tracy Lien, and Dany Salvatierra, and features our Ronald Moran Prize winners Lauren Morrow (fiction) and Denise Jarrott (poetry).
CONTENTS
POETRY
1 ELLA FLORES North American Tectonic Plate Realizes It Can Speak, Tries
11 DENISE JARROTT; Cash Tender Total, Tea Rose Nightgown
27 HANNAH MARSHALL We Were Naked, We Were Horses
28 SHEILA BLACK Heartbreak
37 DIAMOND FORDE Ars Poetica with Snow Globes; Without Hunger
44 TERRY L. KENNEDY Uneasiness Is What
45 DANIEL GLEASON My Childen Understand that the Laminator is a Sacred Object
50 STELLA WONG Pyramid Scheme; Multiple Worlds Interpretation; To Scare Men
65 LAURA OHLMANN Back to Nineteen Ninety-Four
79 MARINA GREENFELD Diatoms
81 DARREN DEMAREE Emily as Soft Answer
88 ASHLEY ROBLES Procession
106 SUJASH PURNA Story City
108 JULIE E. BLOEMEKE After Emily Carr’s The Raven 1928–1929
112 JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS The Moon Is Two Half-Moons Joined Together
120 AMY GAETA ER; Drone
131 ANNA NEWMAN This or that
32 BEATRICE SZYMKOWIAK Through the Window Outside my Lungs; Eagle Creek Fire
142 AMBALILA HEMSELL Hydrangea Blue; Sex in the Anthropocene
152 ALISHA YI White Morning
152 ALISHA YI White Morning
FICTION
2 JESSE MOTTE Woof Woof, Bow Wow
16 LAUREN MORROW Bodies of Water
30 DANY SALVATIERRA Pick Up the Phone Right Now
40 JESSICA LEE RICHARDSON The Game Before Hart Goes
46 JOE FARLEY To a Band I Loved
54 TRACEY LIEN Temblors
66 CASEY MCCONAHAY This Is How You Get There
82 GARIELLE LUTZ Worsted
90 MARLIN BARTON Up a River
109 ELIZABETH KIRSCHNER Make Lasting Friends
114 JOHN FULTON Winter Drive
123 ROB SWIGART Floater
134 DAVID HANSEN Three Welsh Names
144 CHARLI SPIER Sandwich Architecture
BOOK REVIEWS
154 JULIA KOETS The Pleasure of Digression: Michael Griffith’s The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell
157 SKIP EISIMINGER When Light and Dark Merge: John Lane’s Whose Woods These Are
160 GORDON VAN NESS Touch Without Touch: Julie E. Bloemeke’s Slide to Unlock
CONTRIBUTORS
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