ISSUE FOUR
Staying Alive
POETRY
STEPHANIE FORD
Armed Intruder Drill
ALLISON TITUS
Call to Action
The Whole Shebang
ANALICIA SOTELO
The Minotaur Invents the Circumstances
of His Birth
EMMA WINSOR WOOD
Object Relations
BRIDGET TALONE
Lavishly Appointed
JESSICA LIEBERMAN
Girl walks into
NATALIE EILBERT
from The Lake
SANDRA SIMONDS
The Garden of Eden [In Shalimar, Florida,
at night, inside the doom palms]
The Garden of Eden [Found a tulip]
The Garden of Eden [—pulled away from
internet absorption]
PETER LEIGHT
What We Know About the Others
MEGAN FERNANDES
Amsterdam
SUZANNE WISE
The Leak
CATHERINE WAGNER
Thanksgiving Is Over
Lucky Thing
ANNA MARIA HONG
Blue Morpho
Siren
EMILY SKAJA
Elegy with Symptoms
ZACHARY SCHOMBURG
[I'll only drive a Toyota Corona]
[I only drive a Toyota Corona]
[I'm on a new highway]
JARED HARÉL
The Void
Legion
KRISTINA MARTINO
Self-Portrait with Questionable
Provenance
SARA MCGUIRK
La Femme Torero
Of What Was Left After Emptiness
CHERRY PICKMAN
Creature of Habit
How to Be Cheerful Through Starving
MELISSA GINSBURG
Toile de Jouy
Under the Fields
TRENTON POLLARD
Around the Stars, Burning Ice
BRIDGET O'BERNSTEIN
The Cape Breton Island Fire, 1981
The Red Truck Song
ERIN MULLIKIN
Our Shared Sarcophagus Is Only a Slim
Shadow in the Hallway
It Couldn't Have Happened Any Sooner
DANIELLE PAFUNDA
Shhhhhhhhh, shhhhhhhh [It's late and I
have left no one]
Shhhhhhhhh, shhhhhhhh [Did I say I? I
meant her and Nadja]
MAGGIE QUEENEY
The Material and Immaterial Patient
The Induced Patient
ALLISON ADAIR
Biopsy
LESLIE MCGRATH
Globalia
PHILIP METRES
from Shrapnel Maps
SHAWN FAWSON
C
CHRIS HAYES
To Get Anywhere
TOM THOMPSON
The Warblers Are Come
KATHY FAGAN
AccuWeather RealFeel
Morning
ERIC PANKEY
Another Problem with the First Person
JORGE LUIS BORGES
To One No Longer Young
Translated by Steve Kronen
SARAH GRIDLEY
The Hour Has Come to Remember the
Dead
The Kiss
ALLAN PETERSON
Sleep Inn
CHRISTOPHER MORGAN
The Trees
ANDREW FELD
From the Metropolitan Market
Parking Lot
MATTHEW COOPERMAN
Repair
KRISTI MAXWELL
It's Either Maintain or Destroy
(Pre)Occupation
JULIA ANNA MORRISON
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Treatment
MOLLY MINTURN
A Child's Garden of Verses
Midwest
RYANN STEVENSON
The New Midwest
THEA BROWN
Bluestone
ERIN L. MCCOY
Torches
Mandan, North Dakota
YE HUI
A Poem on the Chinese Perspective of
Fate
Translated by Dong Li
A. MOLOTKOV
The Tilt
René Magritte
CLAIRE SCHWARTZ
Cross-examination
SASHA WEST
Ocean Triptych
TRACY FUAD
If Magnetism Fails Us
Dying Is Something You Do
DANIEL POPPICK
Aries
SALLY BALL
Breaker
C DYLAN BASSETT
Outage
Money
RANGI MCNEIL
Medusa
Abridged Taxonomy of the Profane
FRANCISCO MÁRQUEZ
The Future
CATHERINE POND
August in the Adirondacks
Beacon
KATHERINE GIBBEL
I'm Listening to Blue Rondo
PATRICK WILLIAMS
Generic
This Reagent Tablet Looks Like a Cert I
Totally Want To Eat It
FICTION
DAVID CROUSE
Make Me Whole
SUSAN DAITCH
Creatures of the Catastrophozene
KRISTEN N. ARNETT
A Prolonged Muscle Contraction
IAN STANSEL
We've Got Tonight
CEZARIJA ABARTIS
Sleeping Beauty Is Not Well
ZACH POWERS
Calvin Creates Danger
JOANNA NOVAK
Kill Wynn
THOMAS COOK
Chicken Wing Party
NONFICTION
RICK MOODY
On Reading The Crying of Lot 49
MICHAEL LEVAN
Flight
MARCO WILKINSON
Hidden Light, Wooden Ladder, Bucket of
Clay, Pillar of Water
FILM
J.M. TYREE
A Friend of Horror—Notes on Twin Peaks:
The Return
PATRICK KIEFFER
The Keanu Reeves Revenge Film John
Wick as Told Through Its Parenthetical
Subtitle Sound Descriptions
INTERVIEW
FROM THE ARCHIVES:
JOHN ASHBERY in conversation with DAVID REMNICK
COVER ART
FRANK WEBSTER
Apartment Building, Tokyo