Table of Contents
Summer 2025
Poetry
From Red Rock Road
Flaco
Heavens Have Mercy
Repossession
Elect
A Marriage
freak show
Who's "Queer" Now?
Far Away and Very Near
The Most Incredible Thing
Finding Virginia
I Remember 4-H Camp
Easter Sunday
in what was once your town
hanging by the river
Rather Warm
Tiny Windows
Despite Khrushchev
Global Warning
The Hidden History of the Gottscheer and Myself
Afterwards
It’s Mine Now
The Art of Selective Forgetting
The Secrets We Take to the Grave
Life Equals Art
I Am Lighthouse
Not Driving
Before Dawn
Dad’s Lore
Does This Spark Joy?
What a Widower Imagines
Strange Flowers
Dust Devil Rides
Twilight
Queen's Park
Screen Door
It’s Called Progress
N.B. If you are reading the journal on a cell phone, line breaks for some of the poems will be distorted.
Art & Photography
Rebecca Pyle
In the Boat, Late at Night, He Studied
The Apartment Full of African Art, in Rennes
In Berlin, the North-Facing Room
Harry Palacio
Larena Nellies-Ortiz
Essays
On Desire
Christmas Epistle
Amherst
Fiction
Pairs
The Flak House
The Grey Giant
The Last of the Geese
Lou’s Cows
Chums
In the Hallowed Halls of Justice
Drama
Before the End
Contributors