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Issue 29 | Spring 2022

Anticipation

By | Poetry

They rose almost in the dark, went barefoot through the wet grass to gather windfalls before the birds arrived;

Issue 29 | Spring 2022

Migration

By | Poetry

A gut-check cringe away from hope—a taste laid wide against the tongue that I can’t swallow— and you’ve already flown the paths I follow.

Issue 29 | Spring 2022

Audubon

By | Poetry

His was a study of the beautiful flash, the elusive, staccato chord.

Issue 29 | Spring 2022

Sunday Drives with My Father

By | Poetry

its knowledge of good and evil coiled on the seat between us.

Issue 29 | Spring 2022

Wasabi and the Crow

By | Poetry

Alone on the beach under an empty sky, it all comes clear. You promised me vastness— and delivered, even before your irrevocable exit.

Issue 29 | Spring 2022

Inertia

By | Poetry

Where will we end up? Persistent hum of tires is our story, and eventually the color of each signpost has its meaning.

Issue 29 | Spring 2022

Long Beach Summer

By | Poetry

Before we’d been outside the islands of our shitty neighborhoods, we weren’t angry. Only when the sun beat down we dripped with sweat, revealed tanned chests in the backyard, and played the radio.

Issue 29 | Spring 2022

Self-Portrait as a Trout

By | Poetry

How often I have played the part of this poor fish skewered by a barbed hook it mistook for something benign