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Poetry

In the Memory Garden

     MARK GORDON

Love Poem VI

     TIM GAVIN

Destroyed Cattle Pens, Texas

     HENRY CHERRY

Black Mamba

​     NICOLE BURNEY

Fiction

Flowers for Her Hair, 1918

     LYDIA SANDERS

"We picked this year’s pieces with simple guidelines in mind: What moved us? What left us thinking, rethinking, and wanting to write? What did we love to read and read again? We hope that our selections have made this year’s volume as lively to read as it was to create. In my call for submissions, I asked for shards of glass to help us build a stained-glass window. As we stand at the end of the road, I hope these pieces help you see the bigger picture; these are words that mean something to us, to those who wrote them, and hopefully to you."

-- Michelle Politski, Editor-in-Chief, Vol. 62

Table of Contents

 

Poetry

Ambush

     LARRY NARRON

In the Memory Garden

     MARK GORDON

Stroked

9:39

     ANDREW FURST

Chrome Exoplanet, Delaware

Destroyed Cattle Pens, Texas

Funk #49

     HENRY CHERRY

Hearing the Voice of Winter

     REID MITCHELL

Coming Down With Spring

     ALENA PODOBED

Love Poem VI

     TIM GAVIN

Ode to the Potato that My Roommate Left in the Bathroom

All Iguanas Go to Heaven

     CARRIE GEORGE

From the Cards, I Drew the High Priestess

Today I Am the Rift that Opens in the Earth

     KARAH KEMMERLY

Profanity

     MARC MEIERKORT

T-Shirts at Wendy's

     CAROL SMALLWOOD

Fornia

     ALLEN FORREST

Etymology of a Shipwreck, Christmas 1886

The Moon is a Blood Moon

     JONATHAN ANDREW PÉREZ

Field Notes

     KRISTIN LA FOLLETTE

My Thrilling Adolescent Years

Wedding Troughs

     JONATHAN GREENHAUSE

Where Are My Marbles?

     BRUCE ROBINSON

In Relapse or Recovery

     ANDREW LAFLECHE

Notes

     NOMI JEAN-PIERRE

Four Cameos

     PETER SCACCO

Delusion

     IVAN DE MONBRISON

Bruise Blue

     LUIS LOPEZ-MALDONADO

A Mother's Dream

     MARIA SEBASTIAN

Impossible Creatures

     MIKKO HARVEY

Prunus persica

     BRIANA CAMPBELL

Self-Portrait as Jellyfish

     NICHOLAS REINER

Rum + Coke

Tenderloin

Black Mamba

     NICOLE BURNEY

Fiction

El Saco de Papa

     CASANDRA HERNÁNDEZ RÍOS

Venerable P

     JAMES NAJARIAN

Flowers for Her Hair, 1918

     LYDIA SANDERS

Skin

     JODI NAPIORKOWSKI

Wall of White

     VICTORIA FORESTER

Making Sense of the Moon on a Leash

     R. HENRY YENNEK, JR.

Nonfiction

Encounter

TABITHA HAMEISTER

Catching Up: Immigrants Tell Their Stories

     ROBERT STOUT

Art

Fabri Fibra

     MARIO LOPRETE

Surrealism

     BRENTION ROSSOW

Legendary Roommate

Unknown Glory

     JULIA JUSTO

Blaise-ing

Women 13th

Shadow World

     SILVIA LA ROTE

Mr. Machine, cover art

Little Hare

Red Chair

     ANGIE HEDMAN

 

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