Issue 44.1

Image of a mural painted over the remains of a wall in an abandoned building in the woods | Photo by Sage Cruser

Greenville, California: 2021 by Sage Cruser

 

Fiction

The Argument as Overheard by Gertrude Stein â€“ Mark Crimmins

Split Lip â€“ J Saler Drees

EF-3 â€“ Charles Malone

À la Carte Blanche â€“ Zach Powers

The Log â€“ Keigh Ahr

The Trees They Grow So High â€“ Jacqueline Vogtman

 

Hybrid

Textual Healing â€“ Jack Bastock

Another Apocalypse Poem, Take 22 & Another Apocalypse Poem, Take 28 â€“ Christien Gholson

He bought us a farmhouse in the country & That Snake â€“ Jenny Bartoy

Perennial Resurrection â€“ Anne McGrath

Philia, Agape â€“ Terese Robison

Five Dances â€“ Fred Shaw

Google Maps Searching My Childhood: The Orange Blossom House â€“ Maggie Wolff

Cutting Edge â€“ Jacqueline Doyle

 

Poetry

Because My Mother Told Me to Pray About It â€“ Shannon Ashley

My Mother Worked on a Salmon Barge in Homer, AVÀÇÂÛ̳ â€“ Aiden Baker

Arsonist Song â€“ John Wall Barger

Self-Portrait as Driver â€“ Jeffrey Bean

This is how magic works, right? â€“ Hayley Bowen

Aubade with Need to be Picked Clean & Swallowing â€“ Savannah Bradley

One Big Star Heart â€“ Eli Coyle

Chronophobia â€“ Laura Z. Fairgrieve

Sappho: A Voice & Otherwise Engaged â€“ Katherine Gaffney

Heatwave Cooks Mussels in Their Shells on California Shore â€“ Benjamin Gucciardi

Something Old, Something New â€“ Claire Scott

Aubade II â€“ Emily Standlee

On Want & Mountains Are Born and So Are We â€“ Adam D. Weeks

The Complaint of my Grandpa’s John Deere Hat â€“ David Eileen Winn

 

Nonfiction

How to not drive cross country â€“ Carmen Catena

Beautiful Dreamers â€“ Mindy Lewis

Waiting for the End â€“ Angela Mackintosh

Sorrow’s Delicacy â€“ Matthew Meduri

The Boucherie â€“ Gina Warren

Basalt â€“ Katie Duane

 

Art

Greenville, California: 2021 â€“ Sage Cruser

Una Tarde de Domingo â€“ Hector Ledesma

Summer in Marlow â€“ Danielle O’Hanlon

Spoon, Tools of Vulnerability Series, Mixed media sculpture 2020 â€“ Sarah Walko