table of contents

Cover art: “Red,” Zafar Malik.

MAËLLE KEITA
Out of Reach
Eureka!

DAVID AGYEI-YEBOAH
By the riverside

COLETTE POSTAER
An Evening with the Nature Museum Pier

TORI REGO
Bedtime Prayer

JUAN MADRIGAL
The Sylvia Plath Effect
Pests

VAGHAWAN OJHA
Migrating Birds

JENNY WHIDDEN
Ski Lift
Dinner Party
Missy

DAVID RAYGOZA
Penitencia Pequeña
It Wasn’t Just Once

AMMARA YOUNAS
my father and the man who fathered me meet after death
Prelude to Dying Unceremoniously
the last song of desire when god created eve

SATORI
If Those Walls…
Springtime of our Lives

ASMI KARTIKEYA
Ghazal
A Hundred Beloved Crowns (Canzone)

ERICA HASSELBACH
Untitled

ANCA VARVARA-PICCOZZI
a therapist’s confession

ZACH CROSSWAIT
3/2/2023

ASHLEE CRAFT
community resilience

BENJAMIN NIESPODZIANY
Covering Ground
The Most Beautiful Song in the World

MAUDE B.
Conciliatory Carpet Cleaning

MADDY ROWE
Cream Top Half and Half

SAMEEN SHAKYA
Desperate Characters

ETHAN VIETS-VANLEAR
Secondhand Leather Jacket

ACE BOGGESS
Double Lines
"Do you have any pets?"

GAVIN DUBOIS
A Poem for the Pellagra Rash on White Skin
A Poem for the U-Turn on I-70 West
A Poem for Tombstone Lichen

AYESHA KHAN
immune system

MAL GRACE
IN WOLF'S CLOTHING

BRANDON SHANE
Meat School

PHOEBE NEREM
floriography
floriography (reprise)

FAISAL MOHYUDDIN
The Land. The Feebleness. The Termite's Grin
[Exploded] Liberation Haiku

REBECCA WATSON
Thresholds

GRAY LINDSEY
Substitutions

AYDEN SCOTT
Guardian

PATRICIA RUSSO
The New Age of Suspicion

EMMA LEE
I don't want to denigrate venomous animals

ZAID ZAHEER
The Mango

SAMUEL PLAUCHÉ
Declaration of Love

ZOË DAVIS
Besshiki-me

DAITHÍ KEARNEY
Foothold

MADELINE BLAIR
more light