CONTENTS
Letter from the Editor
Gabriel Blackwell
Natural Order
Jessica N. A. Berger
fiction
Real Self Respect
JoAnna Novak
fiction
Love Poem that Becomes the Wikipedia Entry for Ambrosia Beetle
Your Man Asks for Makeup
Scott Beal
poetry
Visitation
Pincers
Caleb Curtiss
poetry
Carver
Ben Segal
fiction
The Bottle of Schnapps
Steve Barbaro
poetry
In Kansas There Is Always Something Flying Through the Air
Morning Commute, Subzero
Prospect West
Dargie Anderson
poetry
Words the Thyroid Knows
Seth Brady Tucker
poetry
Fimbulwinter
Gary Fincke
fiction
The Night You Died
Michael Jeffrey Lee
fiction
frame
eraser
envelopes
Hari B Khalsa
poetry
The Dictator
Kellie Wells
fiction
SPECIAL PORTFOLIO
Introduction
Greg Gerke, guest editor
Almandal Grimoire: The Book as Magical Object
Genese Grill
Wagner’s Passion
Curtis White
Henry Theroux and the Pine Tree
Henry Thoreau Fishing
Henry Thoreau Sleeping Under a Board
Henry Thoreau the Walker
Henry Thoreau and His Lichen Repasts
Henry Thoreau Loved Common Weeds
Henry Thoreau Doesn’t Become a Catholic
Henry Thoreau and the Wilderness
Alexander Theroux
Role Model
John Haskell
REVIEWS
You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South
reviewed by John Kazanjian
The Magpie’s Return by Curtis Smith
reviewed by Jeffrey Condran
The Honey of Earth by David Graham
reviewed by Anne Graue
Obit by Victoria Chang
reviewed by Z. L. Nickels
The Wanting Was a Wilderness by Alden Jones
reviewed by Ian Munnelly
Disparates by Patrick Madden
reviewed by Jennifer Lang