ISSUE FIVE
Fauna
POETRY
JOSE HERNANDEZ DIAZ
The Man and the Antlers
ERICA EHRENBERG
Anxiety Rabbit
JESS FELDMAN
Trophy
ROBERT FERNANDEZ
Zodiac
ROSE HUNTER
Puffer
ROBERT WRIGLEY
The Dogs
DEVON WALKER-FIGUEROA
Golden
Ode to "Your Majesty"
RYAN FLAHERTY
Get the Child Sonnet
AMARIS FELAND KETCHAM
Lesser Stripetail Scorpion
Ringtail Cat
CYNTHIA ARRIEU-KING
Outsider Art
CHRISTOPHER BREAN MURRAY
Field
JENNIFER MOORE
Speak of the Meadow
ELIZABETH ROBINSON
Benediction: A Modest List
Warmth Simile
MRB CHELKO
Sunrise with Scaffolding
Where We Are
JENNIFER MILITELLO
Sibling Parasitic
Sibling Invention
LILLIAN-YVONNE BERTRAM
How Narrow My Escapes
Georgic
PRISCILLA BECKER
Crap Milk
JULIE DANHO
I Want to Eat Bugs with You Underground
MIRANDA FIELD
Meat District
Owlet
CLAIRE DONATO
The [Redacted]
Horse: A Triptych
REBECCA WOLFF
Will You Disassociate with Me?
ERICA BERNHEIM
The Cat with the Disappearing Teeth
The People We Love Are Disappearing
Around us
JOANNA KLINK
On Wanting
Portrait in Summer
BECKA MARA MCKAY
from The Dictionary of Misremembered
English [GRAVEYARD WORKING]
from The Dictionary of Misremembered
English [SCORSE]
JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS
Ordinary Beasts
BRIAN RUSSELL
In Good Hands
Tourists Pose for Photos in Front of the
Commemorative Sign Marking the
Beginning of Route 66 Outside of Panda
Express in Downtown Chicago
CHRISTOPHER DEWEESE
7/24/17: Remarks by President Trump at
2017 National Scout Jamboree
11/7/17: Remarks by President Trump to
the National Assembly of the Republic of
Korea
NICHOLAS REGIACORTE
American Mastodon wades through
security
CATHERINE BARNETT
Summons
The Necessary Preoccupations
ZACHARY HESTER
Counterpoint at the Corner of Mapleton
Hill
RICHARD ROBBINS
My Father Without Answer
JOHN GALLAHER
The Light the Dead Make
The Prison Experiment
LAUREN HALDEMAN
Tour [You are standing at the historic
fence line]
Tour [On what followed I have very
confused ideas]
Tour [Tops of pines]
D.C. GONZALES-PRIETO
Sargon the Memorious
Et in Arcadia Ego
MALACHI BLACK
Horoscope (Presentiments of the Abyss in
Mitchell, South Dakota)
Into the Mouths of Saints
PETER RICHARDS
[Lord the dire Lord]
[October of Corinthians October of tall]
JANICE N. HARRINGTON
Awe!
PAGE HILL STARZINGER
Ars Poetica
JENNIFER ATKINSON
Like Somewhere in Saskatchewan
Reading Nautical Maps
KIRSTIN ALLIO
Swan Point XII./Icarus
Evensong
SOPHIE KLAHR
from Like Nebraska [He sleeps like an
amber thread]
from Like Nebraska [She listens like a
horse]
MAGGIE SMITH
Invisible Architecture
MEGHAN MAGUIRE DAHN
Shrift
M.A. VIZSOLYI
For February See Futile & Lighten Up
For Life See Headphones Those Big Ones
TALIA FLORES
Cream Cheese
CARRIE OEDING
I Kept a Voice in My Peacock
LEAH CLAIRE KAMINSKI
Orange County Bird of Prey
Hummingbird in Torpor with Jacaranda
CHARLIE CLARK
A Bird, Perhaps, or What Was Once a
Bird
JEANNE LARSEN
Certainly She Recognizes Him, Or
Uncertainly, Or Not
ANDREW KOZMA
Red Riding
The Monkey's Paw
WILLIAM REPASS
Bleats
SARAH WOLFSON
Some Conditions
WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS
A Bowl of Blueberries
FICTION
STEPHANIE REENTS
The Grizzly
MARIA KUZNETSOVA
The Passport
URSULA VILLARREAL-MOURA
Mucci
AARON HAMBURGER
Refugees
OLIVIA CLARE
What She Has
DAN POPE
The Graveyard
DANIEL NGUYEN
Home Now
TERESE SVOBODA
Burn the Bed
HEATHER MOMYER
One of the Animals
NONFICTION
LESLEY JENIKE
Exit, Pursued by a Bear
KALIL ZENDER
A Contemplation of Beauty or Foulness
SHEILA SQUILLANTE
Father of the Open Window
PHILIP METRES
The Dacha at Tuchkovo: Two Fictions
JOANNA NOVAK
Frosting
FILM
ADAM GOLASKI
On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi
INTERVIEW
OLIVIA CLARE in conversation with BENJAMIN ANASTAS
COVER ART
KAHN & SELESNICK
Still Life Pepper (front)
Amy & Paddy (back)