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 β€“ Mark Crimmins

Split Lip β€“ J Saler Drees

EF-3 β€“ Charles Malone

Γ€ la Carte Blanche β€“ Zach Powers

The Log β€“ Keigh Ahr

The Trees They Grow So High β€“ Jacqueline Vogtman

 

Hybrid

Textual Healing β€“ Jack Bastock

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

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

Perennial Resurrection β€“ Anne McGrath

Philia, Agape β€“ Terese Robison

Five Dances β€“ Fred Shaw

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

Cutting Edge β€“ Jacqueline Doyle

 

Poetry

Because My Mother Told Me to Pray 91ΚΣΖ΅ It β€“ Shannon Ashley

My Mother Worked on a Salmon Barge in Homer, 91ΚΣΖ΅ β€“ Aiden Baker

Arsonist Song β€“ John Wall Barger

Self-Portrait as Driver β€“ Jeffrey Bean

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

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

One Big Star Heart β€“ Eli Coyle

Chronophobia β€“ Laura Z. Fairgrieve

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

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

Something Old, Something New β€“ Claire Scott

Aubade II β€“ Emily Standlee

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

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

 

Nonfiction

How to not drive cross country β€“ Carmen Catena

Beautiful Dreamers β€“ Mindy Lewis

Waiting for the End β€“ Angela Mackintosh

Sorrow’s Delicacy β€“ Matthew Meduri

The Boucherie β€“ Gina Warren

Basalt β€“ Katie Duane

 

Art

Greenville, California: 2021 β€“ Sage Cruser

Una Tarde de Domingo β€“ Hector Ledesma

Summer in Marlow β€“ Danielle O’Hanlon

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