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 โ€“ Mark Crimmins

Split Lip โ€“ J Saler Drees

EF-3 โ€“ Charles Malone

ร€ la Carte Blanche โ€“ Zach Powers

The Log โ€“ Keigh Ahr

The Trees They Grow So High โ€“ Jacqueline Vogtman

 

Hybrid

Textual Healing โ€“ Jack Bastock

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

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

Perennial Resurrection โ€“ Anne McGrath

Philia, Agape โ€“ Terese Robison

Five Dances โ€“ Fred Shaw

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

Cutting Edge โ€“ Jacqueline Doyle

 

Poetry

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

My Mother Worked on a Salmon Barge in Homer, Alaska โ€“ Aiden Baker

Arsonist Song โ€“ John Wall Barger

Self-Portrait as Driver โ€“ Jeffrey Bean

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

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

One Big Star Heart โ€“ Eli Coyle

Chronophobia โ€“ Laura Z. Fairgrieve

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

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

Something Old, Something New โ€“ Claire Scott

Aubade II โ€“ Emily Standlee

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

The Complaint of my Grandpaโ€™s John Deere Hat โ€“ David Eileen Winn

 

Nonfiction

How to not drive cross country โ€“ Carmen Catena

Beautiful Dreamers โ€“ Mindy Lewis

Waiting for the End โ€“ Angela Mackintosh

Sorrowโ€™s Delicacy โ€“ Matthew Meduri

The Boucherie โ€“ Gina Warren

Basalt โ€“ Katie Duane

 

Art

Greenville, California: 2021 โ€“ Sage Cruser

Una Tarde de Domingo โ€“ Hector Ledesma

Summer in Marlow โ€“ Danielle Oโ€™Hanlon

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