Issue 21.2

Fiction

Karolina Letunova

• Turn Your Back to the Forest Free for non-subscribers

Rebecca Bernard

• The Theft Free for non-subscribers

Cristi Donoso

• Rest Free for non-subscribers

Paula Closson Buck

• The Girl Who Loved Boyan Slat Free for non-subscribers

John Fulton

• Emily Leaves Switzerland Free for non-subscribers

Marguerite Sheffer

• In the Style of Miriam Ackerman

Poetry

Dominique Ahkong

• Music Heard in Your Teacher’s House
• Reunion Dinner

Mildred Kiconco Barya

• The Captors Demand of Us an Anthem

Michael Bazzett

• The Missing River

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura

• Western Motel, 1957

Chen Xianfa

• Guanyin Mountain
• Watching Swallows from the Hall Doorway

Alex Chertok

• Alzheimer’s Translation: Anagram
• Alzheimer’s Translation: Syllabics

Chelsea B. DesAutels

• Halloween
• I Did Not Call My Shame, Shame

CD Eskilson

• Birdwatching Free for non-subscribers

William Fargason

• Ode to the Dragon Dagger

Juliana Gray

• Come Back to Me, My Melody
• The Ideal Reader Free for non-subscribers

Sophia Holtz

• worst case scenario
• shelter

Keetje Kuipers

• Eating Sea Urchin
• Poikilothermic
• Greek Chorus Free for non-subscribers

Angie Macri

• The creek called lost was obviously not

Wayne Miller

• On Narrative

Jessica Nirvana Ram

• Tending the Garden Free for non-subscribers
• If I told you I was falling in love, would you stop me

Anna Laura Reeve

• Self-Portrait as the Eight of Swords

Michael Robins

• Betting on the Four Horse
• On the Limits of Memory

Brian Russell

• The Schrenck’s Tulip

Michael Martin Shea

• from I’m Sorry but None of This Is My Fault

Robert Thomas

• Sonnets with Riff and Hook Free for non-subscribers

Dāshaun Washington

• Matrilineage Free for non-subscribers
• Somewhere, A River

YE Hui

• The Ruins
• The Stranger

Kenton K. Yee

• Spacemanship

Literary Nonfiction

Tara Fee

• Foundling Free for non-subscribers

Carly Parker-Plank

• Dark Matter

Megan Rich

• Reproduction

Artwork

Linnea Paskow

• Fires and Collages Free for non-subscribers

Writing about Sex Folio

Jonathan Alexander

• Writing Sex Free for non-subscribers

Dorothy Chan

• The Inward Pull and Pulsation: On the Erotics of Faylita Hicks’s A Map of My Want and Michael Chang’s Synthetic Jungle Free for non-subscribers

Edgar Gomez

• On the Literary Merits of Funny Sex Free for non-subscribers

Gwen E. Kirby

• Middle Age Has Never Been So Sexy: Role Play and Erotic Binaries in All Fours Free for non-subscribers

Keetje Kuipers

• “Breakwater”: On the Craft of Sex in Poetry Free for non-subscribers