Vol. 9 No. 1

Summer 2026

The one who guarded the city from people
Editor's Note
The Great Aria
Zelensky, dead now
House Lessons
Coffee Shop Denizens
Spectral
on Oklahomans
Twilight in Archer City
After Triage
Umolchaniye
Ghost of Post Office Past
Unidentified Lying Object
The House That Keeps Us
Ambivalence
Lots Over Motel
Hide and Seek
Ekphrasis for a Painting that Does Not Exist
Drifters
Ready for the Graveyard
The Mystery Guest
Inheritents
When my head slept on the mountain
Dream Girl
I’m still mad at Jesus for breaking Madeleine’s heart
When you taught yourself cartwheels in the backyard
Would They Believe You
(Eunoia)
Big Leaf Parsley as Potted Plant
Abecedarian for Lyuba
TAFKAP the Love Symbol
(Ramé)
Suzanne Valadon Glosses over am Question of Career Preference
Evidence (Glasses)
Feverdream: Accent (1)
Her
The Younger Woman
Nostalgia Tastes Like Boone’s Farm
Feverdream: Accent (2)
The Winter After
Mislaid
Stealing Lipstick
Feverdream: Accent (3)
Dear Blue Eyeshadow
Professional Dyke
here where the wild
Self-Portrait
From "american cyclorama"
My Daughter,
Day Hike in El Capitan
Tribute to Niki de Saint Phalle
Sanctuary
The Mental Load
Skunkwatching
Tribute to Susan Bee
A True Story
El Silencio
Drawing a Map with a Rat Tail Comb
In a Time of War (Four Poems without Words) 1
Twenty-Five
Broadway
Shisa Kankō…Pointing, Calling
In a Time of War (Four Poems without Words) 2
Reasons to Winter Over
Sentimental
Verges
In a Time of War (Four Poems without Words) 3
Eulogy for the Goldfish and Past Dreams
Requiem at Cana
In the next galaxy
In a Time of War (Four Poems without Words) 4
What Happens When
Loose Change
Separation
(Hülya)
The Glove
A Heron Undressing
Now and Later
Cha!
Dear Delphi
I tell the coast forest why I haven’t come back
Record Keeping
Death Row
What Praying is For
The Horse Sun Blinds My Eyes
Innocence Lost