ISSUE SEVEN
The Devotions
POETRY
JAMES SHEA
Wake
Two-Body Problem
STEPHANIE ELLIS SCHLAIFER
From the Cabinet of Unconsciousness
(Lesser Animals)
From the Cabinet of Unconsciousness
(Whaling)
JAN VERBERKMOES
Elegy as Hypothesis: Burning the Boat
Elegy as Subjunctive: Taxidermy of a
Swallow
MARGARET CIPRIANO
Camera Obscura Looking Inward
No Shepherd
JENNIFER L. KNOX
Marilyn, Every Day We Wonder
TANNER PRUITT
Nest
ERIN LYNCH
Catechism
DAVID BAKER
Checkpoint
Sensationalism
EMILY SIEU LIEBOWITZ
Goodbye 10
Goodbye 11
ANSLEY CLARK
I Am a Bad System
RACHEL GALVIN
Meat and Honey
One Sugar or Two
ALISON PELEGRIN
Our Lady of Thoughts and Prayers
MATTHEW THORBURN
Respair
MAUREEN THORSON
A Late Pardon
PAULA CISEWSKI
Brief Note on Forward Motion
KRISTEN STEENBEEKE
Warm Prayer Universe
Donating
SHEN HAOBO
Prague Under Sunlight
(translated by Liang Yujing)
C. DALE YOUNG
Portrait in Sugar and Simple Prayer
Pastiche
ALEŠ ŠTEGER
In the Children's Hospital
(translated by Brian Henry)
AM RINGWALT
[Some people]
The Agony in the Garden
CHRISTINE GOSNAY
That God Is No Longer Here
COLBY COTTON
Devotional
DEVON WOOTTEN
[I share your disappointment]
PETER MISHLER
Pastoral by Mattel
ADRIENNE SU
Chinese Restaurant Syndrome
WILLIAM EVANS
Still[ain’t]life
JEFFREY MCDANIEL
Arroyo Burro Beach
Amsterdam
BRANDON RUSHTON
What if There’s Something Out There
JAMES GRINWIS
Quartet of One
Recipe for Luck 7
SAMUEL AMADON
For Lucie Brock-Broido
ERIC PANKEY
Available Light
ZANG DI
An Instant of Immortality Primer
Ashes Primer
(translated by Eleanor Goodman)
PETER STRECKFUS
An Allegory
ELLEN BOYETTE
[In this one the nurse takes my height and
weight only to find I hold controversial
beliefs about sunsets causing seizures]
KATHARINE WHITCOMB
Flame in a Jar
CAYLIN CAPRA-THOMAS
The Book of Giants
ADAM CLAY
In Bed and Where Is the Sun?
PETER COOLEY
Advent Poem
SARAH MANGOLD
Flicker
KIRSTEN IHNS
In the Gladely Void
ENDI BOGUE HARTIGAN
the cuckoo before it emerges
more a clothespin
MATTHEW HENRIKSEN
I Left the Route to the Judgment of My
Horse
Redacted Reflection
DUJIE TAHAT
Ghazal After Ghazal Wherein I Keep
Leaving My Ex-Wife
AYA SATOH
Apophatic
STEFFI DREWES
from Count Like It Calms You
[stop writing toothache and hangnail]
[still can’t find your footing]
JOSHUA HARMON
Holyoke Range
JESSICA GOODFELLOW
Orange
G.C. WALDREP
[St. Melangell’s Day, Eastnor (V)]
[Ely Cathedral]
NATHAN HOKS
Soul Ode
ANTONIA POZZI
Rag
Prayer to Poetry
(translated by Amy Newman)
OWEN MCLEOD
Ricketts Creek
BRANDI NICOLE MARTIN
Hands
LAUREN CAMP
Deliberate Days
BRONWEN TATE
A Sickness Does Not Resemble
HEATHER GREEN
Fable for a Genome
CARY STOUGH
Glossolalia
The Insect That Glitters Has the Brave
Sequined Eye of the Dancer
DEBORAH BERNHARDT
That Your Word is [Your] Bond
SARAH DESTIN
[Perforate, a tympani drum strung tighter
and tighter over a rim]
[Pleasure is money dipped in honey, cold
hard cash lathered with butter]
CORI A. WINROCK
How to Preserve a Spacesuit
ALISHA DIETZMAN
Self-Portrait as the Television Series
Workaholics
SANDRA SYLVIA NELSON
One
CHRISTIAN WESSELS
ROM Cycle
FICTION
SABRINA ORAH MARK
The Professor
JOANNA NOVAK
Lamb, Goat, Tongue
CHRIS STUCK
Give My Love to the Savages
MAUD CASEY
Bells of Loudun
PABLO PIÑERO STILLMANN
Versus the Brown Socks
SU-YEE LIN
Cacti Prickle
MARY BREADEN
Newlands Corner
ROGER TOPP
Shore-fast Ice
JACKIE THOMAS-KENNEDY
Sister Joan
NONFICTION
JOANNA LULOFF
The Body
JENNY BOULLY
Skinhead Joe
SPENCER REECE
A Broken Altar
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH
Nikola Kečanin
JOAN CONNOR
Oddments and Oddities: An
Unanticipated Elegy (for my father)
HEATHER J. MACPHERSON
The Falling Man
TYLER MILLS
Gone: An Elegy
D. GILSON
Genesis
FILM
WILL STOCKTON
Child’s Play
INTERVIEW
SABRINA ORAH MARK
in conversation with
VI KHI NAO
COVER ART
JOCHEM HENDRICKS
Hansi