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Cover photo: “Snow on the Olentagy, 2010” Gordon Grigsby
Associate Editors: Donna Spector, Kailen Nourse-Driscoll, Patti Sullivan, Anthony Mohr, L.D. Zane, Stacia Levy, Jeffrey Davis, Clela Reed, Matthew Mendoza, Matthew Spireng, Ace Boggess, Kristin Laurel, Jan Bowman, Aaron Fischer
Cat Wyatt Aloha Girl 24
James Brennan Can’t Say No to You 37
Corey Lynn Fayman Rambler Wagon 47
Bobby Cohen Five Things 55
Kathleen Zamboni McCormick Paying for College Before #metoo 64
Esta Fischer Coffee 83
Russell Thayer Combustion 97
Beth Escott Newcomer Can These Bones Live? 109
Kim Farleigh On Being Mad 115
Kathie Giorgio Recipe 126
Karen Fayeth The Violin, the Lion, and the Truth 141
Eleanor Lerman Murmansk 146
Ruth Kavanagh Diagnosis Day & Tackling Cancer “Head On”—Pun Intended 31
Marie G Coleman What Kind Am I? 51
Johnny L Wooten & Richard Vasquez What to do with the Lost Boy of the Barrio 76
Jan Shoemaker The Difference 122
Galina Chernaya The Court of the People 160
Mirana Comstock The Frailty of Beauty 23
Elizabeth Weir Migrant 30
On the Day the Pandemic was Declared 31
John Lambremont, Sr In the Breeze 35
Thomas R Moore Passing Through St. Petersburg 36
Gerald Yelle How I Identify 45
Kevin D Norwood Matins 46
Susan Johnson City Trees 49
Boxes 50
Sacajawea Overheard Talking To Herself 50
Kimberly Lindemann Grandma 52
Child of Bones 53
Doris Ferleger I Hid It so You’ll Never Find It 54
Ed Wade “Dancin’ with my Baby” 62
Penelope Barnes Thompson Getting It Right 74
Will You 74
What May Not Be Discarded 75
Vicki Mandell-King Saving Grace 81
Rainbow Body 82
Lucia Haase Wildflower Field 83
William Swarts Semper Fidelis 96
Mitchell Untch Essential 105
Seth Rosenbloom Shooting Squad, 1941 Lithuania 113
Unto Our Renewal 114
Ellen Goldsmith Edging 118
Echocardiogram 118
Not Knowing 119
JBMulligan some faith in man 120
Carol Graser The Adirondack Postcard 121
Mary Ann Noe Pressed Linen 125
Heat 125
The Day the Sky Froze 126
Mark Simpson Slide Hill 139
The O’Neill Dancers Are Dancing Today, March 17 140
Toward a Practical Life 141
George J Searles Much Obliged, U.S. Gov’t Printing Office! You Guys are the Best! 144
Workplace from Hell 145
Anna Citrino Sealed Up 158
Once, in the Basement 159
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