SCR Issue 54.2 includes poetry by Domenica Martinello, and Despy Boutris, with fiction by Khem K. Aryal, Gionni Ponce, and Katherine Tunning.
Contents
Poetry
1 GALE MARIE THOMPSON Wind Shear
3 DOMENICA MARTINELLO Power Ballad; There’s a Life Inside My Life
19 ELIZABETH LINDSEY ROGERS Fertility Ballad
22 JUSTIN REED No, I Mean I Really Want You to Live Forever
36 KATIE KEMPLE Before I can write about love
50 LILLIAN BERTRAM Money Rules: A Duplex; Anthropocene Money; Colonizer Money
63 STELLA WONG how the HR department responds to a report
64 DAVE NIELSEN How to Make a Hootenanny Pancake
73 MAYA MARSHALL Girl Born with Cleft Palate Turns Ten, Divines for Water in Her Backyard
77 SEBASTIÁN H. PÁRAMO Sobbing in a U-Haul
78 DEPSY BOUTRIS Falling; Breakup Ghazal
102 GEORGIA TIFFANY To Live in That Room
104 ERIKA. LUCKERT Moules Marinères
114 JEFFREY BEAN Love Poem in Quarantine
116 JANE ZWART Poem With a Hole In It
156 MEL RUTH Ridgeway, VA 2008
Fiction
7 HANNAH FEUSTLE If That’s How You Have To Be
24 STEVE ALMOND I’m Not the Only One
39 A.T. BISESI City Lights
54 KHEM. K. ARYAL Shopping for Glasses
65 DOUG RAMSPECK Omens
74 KATHERINE TUNNING The Sofa
81 DEAN TUCK The Amnesiacs
106 GIONNI PONCE The City to See and Be Seen
117 HARRY GORDON Dust
Book Reviews
128 WALT HUNTER A Necessary Language: Tracy K. Smith’s Such Color
131 AMBER LEE Coming to Terms with American Expression of Race: Connor Towne O’Neill’s Down Along with That Devil’s Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy
134 STEPHEN HUNDLEY Daddy’s Rotten Kingdom: Steve Almond’s All the Secrets of the World
Contributors
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