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[poetry]

Amidah

By Avah Dodson

Last night you found Jesus in the dregs of the red curry

[poetry]

Lowcountry Blues and Judas Kiss

By William R. Stoddart

If I could feel sorrow // for a thing entire of itself, // it would be St. Helena Island.

[poetry]

Cache

By Damon Pham

There’s a kind of meant to be // wearing in // I’m newly knowing of

[poetry]

The Next Note

By Tony Brinkley

Improvisations - little more than // preludes as inclined by other options // and expression as to what will happen

[poetry]

Wild Turkeys and Thirteen

By Jessie Brown

Mossed path through rhododendrons tall as trees // and here come the hens, burnished legs slow-stepping // eight, nine, ten copper bodies like Aladdin’s lamps

[poetry]

Cultural Resurrection: An Operator’s Manual

By Mingran Cao

Step one: Disable Lunar Rhythms using Greenwich Mean Timestamps

[poetry]

Power Electronics

By Zack Carson

The interior of electricity: // held stable in its grip, made pure at long // last. This is where man should surrender, // inside arc flash.

[poetry]

Birthday Drill and Staining the Fence

By Cecil Morris

My wife has given me a new drill, // a DeWalt 20 volt battery- // powered model with joyous yellow // highlights, the color of doing.

[poetry]

Just Animals and That Which Cannot be Thought About

By Linda Stryker

Mollie lays the eggs; the male // brings food for weeks. // In a month, the first tiny beak // pecks out of its confinement.

[poetry]

Texas and A Family History

By John Saint Sylvain

Not content to build up life in piles // They came here to hack limestone

[fiction]

Eric and Lyra: A Relationship in Five Acts

By Barry Fields

Lyra met Eric at La Patisserie, her favorite café but one they hadn’t been to as a couple. The owners, whom you could hear speaking French to each other, had modeled it on a Paris bistro, with pale yellow walls and large format black and white photographs of a dozen of the city’s famous monuments. On the wall, the Arc of Triumph towered over them.

[fiction]

Mark as Read

By Kat Hausler

“Can she do that?” Pauli asked after ordering another round of drinks Viktor hoped would be their last.