Issue 29 | Spring 2022 Anticipation By Kelly Rowe | 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 Elijah Mendoza | 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 Sharon Ackerman | Poetry His was a study of the beautiful flash, the elusive, staccato chord.
Issue 29 | Spring 2022 Sunday Drives with My Father By Sharon Ackerman | Poetry its knowledge of good and evil coiled on the seat between us.
Issue 29 | Spring 2022 Wasabi and the Crow By Laura Jan Shore | 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 Elijah Mendoza | 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 Elijah Mendoza | 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 Bonnie Wehle | Poetry How often I have played the part of this poor fish skewered by a barbed hook it mistook for something benign