
Contents
Poetry
NATALIE GIARRATANO Farmer’s Almanac: Wildfire Outlook
LAURA VOGT Folklore of Past Lives
DANIEL OOI My Christian Grandfather’s Taoist Funeral
ELLEN JUNE WRIGHT The Secret Life of Wisteria; I Carry Wisteria In My Chest
JENNIFER GIVHAN Order of Operations ((or the Viral Equation that “Broke” the Internet) or Mothering Through Chronic/Mental Illness); My Daughter & My Daughter & I Test Positive for Covid
JAVIER SANDOVAL The Last Dozen Drizzled-City Nights
CHARLES BYRNE Everything happens for a reason
ZACHARIAH CLAYPOLE WHITE Medical History as Creation Myth
SHAUN TURNER The Bull Moose Bluff Charges
KENIA CANO Stone;Fiesta
MEGAN J. ARLETT Alhambra Incantation; August Afternoon in the Olive Orchards
JOHN T. HOWARD Our Father
JULIE FUNDERBURK Shoes
MEGHAN STERLING Love Poem for My Husband at 4 AM
JOSH LEFKOWITZ Forty-One Years
EMILY LAKE HANSEN Baby Got Back But It Won’t Fit In The Seat
AMORAK HUEY Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Indiana Jones
SARAH BROCKHAUS To the Cockroach
ANGIE MACRI Findings
JEFF NEWBERRY Word Problem
DOUG RAMSPECK River Birch
Fiction
BRADLEY BAZZLE Each Unique Specimen
LESLIE PIETRZYK Girls Like That End Up Fine
MATT LUMBARD Big River, little river
M.O. WALSH The Staggered
WILLIAM WALKER Chemin de Dieu
ROBERTO ABAD If You Think About It, It’s Not So Bad SCR Series in Latin American Translation
BHAVIKA SICKA Mooring
VASILIOS MOSCHOURIS The Impact
CLAYTON BRADSHAW-MITTAL Carolina Demon Story
DENNIS MCFADDEN Territorial Imperatives
S.J. LAURO Snake Luck
Book Reviews
SCOTT GOULD One Foot Here, One Foot There: Khem K. Aryal’s The In-Betweeners
JON SEALY Implacably Real: Ron Rash’s The Caretaker