CONTENTS
Letter from the Editor
Gabriel Blackwell
The Bare Facts
Michael Jeffrey Lee
fiction
Spindrift
Rob Walsh
fiction
Notes on US Guns Flooding Mexico
Pablo Piñero Stillmann
poetry
With Two Rivers Behind Me
Pamela Ryder
fiction
A Map of My Mother (and Memory)
Jill Talbot
essay
Taliesin
Matt MacFarland
poetry
The Vegetable
Laurie Blauner
fiction
Self-talk on a turbulent propeller plane
Alex Chertok
poetry
Post Vanitas Analysis
Elizabeth Langemak
poetry
Amulet on the Island of Zulon
Amulet from the Island of Rikimaki
Confusion on the Island of Putia
Roberta Allen
fiction
Lo
Elegy in Quarantine
General Absolution
Melissa Crowe
poetry
Cryptomnesia
Louis Armand
fiction
self portrait as harry styles’s pearl necklace, circa his 2020 performance with lizzo in miami
ekphrasis of caravaggio’s boy with a basket of fruit
Lip Manegio
poetry
The Rooms in Which I Waited
Debbie Urbanski
essay
BOOK REVIEWS
The Witch of Eye by Kathryn Nuernberger
reviewed by Tania Pabón Acosta
A Complex Sentence by Marjorie Wellish
reviewed by Anne Graue
Popular Longing by Natalie Shapero
reviewed by Keith Kopka
Night Rooms by Gina Nutt
reviewed by Abigail Oswald
Nancy by Bruno Lloret, translated by Ellen Jones
reviewed by Katie Smith
The Carrying by Ada Limón
reviewed by Sarah D’Stair