TABLE OF CONTENTS

MASTHEAD

Editor-in-Cheif – Sheila Squillante

Managing Editor – Lauren Hunter

Fiction Editor – Marc Neison

Nonfiction Editor – Heather McNaugher

Poetry Editor – Leia Wilson

Associate Editors – Amber Beck, Andrew Jones, Kim Michalak, Jen Ashburn, Emily Jacko

Assistant Editors – Malcolm Culleton, Jenny Drone, Jo Emanuelson, Zenith Jebasingh, Jacey Krueger, Chris Laughman, Derek Maiolo, Hailey Pierce, R.J. Redline, Bailey Sims

Copy Editor – Bailey Sims, Malcolm Culleton, Jo Emanuelson, Hailey Pierce

Artwork Choices – Jacey Krueger

Layout & Design – Kinsley Stocum

Administrative Support – Joe Bisciotti

Cover Art – Kim Breit, “In The Shade,” 2022

poetry

• Roseanna Alice Boswell, I Have Something to Say about This Body–!

• Marisa P. Clark, Never Mind the Irises; Self-Portrait as Butterfly Bush Before I Realized She Was Ghosting Me

• Jennifer Harrison, The; Beachcomber; Spring; Mountains

• K Janeschek, Bears; The Last Look

• Jayant Kashyap, A P O C A L Y P S E Haiku; The Last Time We Set the World on Fire: Variations; Anatomy of a Global Warming Email

• Elina Katrin, I–; Pickled Tradition; Ode to Mycorrhizal Networks

• Ellen Li, At The End Of History; Which Is A Jersey Suburb

• Jeanne Morel, Shifting Contours

• Cassandra Whitaker, Floor Plan

fiction

• D.W. Arden, How Hungry The Sea

• Brian Druckenmiller, Shoofly

• Margaret Ferguson, The Last Known Whereabouts of Leo DesJardins

• Tina Pisco, Animal Crackers

• Danilo John Thomas, Lug Hack

nonfiction

• Charlie Espinosa, Laberinto

• Chad Hanson, Gray Gold: Striking Solace on a Slow Quest to Find Burrows in the Wild

• Rachel Hanson, Lookout

• Jenn Hollmeyer, Short Leash

• Anne Noonan, Impervious