Issue 9
Winter 2021
WINTER POETRY CONTEST WINNER: “The Shape of a Nervous Stomach” by Roseanna Alice Boswell
THE GLUTTON’S DIGEST: “Don’t Let Me Taste Something I Can’t Have” by Caroline Parkman Barr
POETRY
Surrender & Dear Winter Light / Laura Maher & L.I. Henley
PICKED UP ZOETROPE FROM KEVIN’S HOUSE / Angelo Maneage
Bitch Wire & Ghostwriter / Mary Biddinger
coyote / Rebbecca Brown
from & Idle Aegis 55 & 57 / Patrick Redmond
Thoughts on My Mother’s Favorite Flower & Old Lovers Give Themselves Acupuncture on Cacti / Megan Borocki
A Photo and its Negative / Charlotte Covey
The body as a ghost praying for grace / Trivarna Hariharan
Growing Emptiness / Barbara Schwartz
Minnows Wear Swift / Shane Chergosky
Fire Eater, Premolar, Bone / Remi Recchia
To Marie Antoinette, from a Teenage Girl Who Rarely Wore Makeup & To Marie Antoinette, from a Woman Who Mourned the Loss of Time, Too / Kelly R. Samuels
Sky, Wound, Mouth That Eats Itself / Mackenzie Schubert
FICTION
Stroller / Timothy Day
The Bear / Matt Chelf
Lydia / Erin Schallmoser
So Far Freddy / Jon Conley
How I Learned to Be Left-Handed / Delaney Sweet
I Hear They Eat Sadness / Caelyn Cobb
NONFICTION
On Witnessing / CZ Zeng
Cut Both Ends / Carrie South
摺紙鶴: Paper Cranes / Ralph Lam
Gathering (1973) / Nita Noveno
HYBRID
Neuron / Lucy Zhang
Landscape: In Parts / Sarah Matsuda
A Design and Purpose in Nature / James Grinwis
excerpts from Investigative Commentary Postmortem from the Dead to the Youngest Sister (“you,” “your,” “yours”) / Theresa Senato Edwards
Poetry / C.S. Carrier
ARTWORK
Issue 9 Featured Artwork: “Corners of the World” “Spring Coven” “Overextended” “Covid 19.4” “Fairytale in Isolation” & “Fragile Ray of Sunshine” by Sarah Burris
Seamless as Memory & Breathless as Wildfire / Bill Wolak
Sheltering / Judith Luongo
tender lips & lump / Prachi Valechha
Anesthesia & Venous / Carolyn Adams
Selected Fields of Color 22 / Alex Nodopaka