EDITORIAL COMMENT Occasional Notes: Matthew Feeney, Scared inside front cover
Neglected Help: R Craig Sautter, This is not September inside back cover
Cover art: Patti Sullivan
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, Joanne Durham, Maple Davis
JONATHAN B FERRINI Sand & Ash 21
BARBARA BAER Holly 29
J P DALEY More Than A Smile 40
JEAN ROVER Cliff Hanger 49
DAREN SCHUETTPELZ Just Hanging Out 55
“The Conductor” 58
BILL SMOOT The Race Riot 70
SHANNON ROBERTS How to Cross the Purple Sea 87
LAURA SHAINE CUNNINGHAM A Murmuration 102
THOMAS ELSON Swing Creek Road 121
ALAN CLIFFE When the Man Comes Round Again 125
BRUCE KAMEI Chinos 145
BARRY JUDSON LOHNES Justice and a Raisin Pie 161
MARGARET KARMAZIN My Ex, My Wife 174
MICHAEL WASHBURN Sandusky Nocturne 188
LAURO PALOMBA House 203
WILLIAM KITCHER Peter’s Birthday Present 219
JON PEARSON Buttercream 225
JENNIFER FROST Streets of Sorrow 229
BRUCE L BENNETT From Life Sentence to Wastewater
Treatment Plant Operator 10
GERI GALE Defy the Power of the Natural Order 45
SUSAN NARAYAN The New Girl 111
LILLY ROAN Smoke 117
DUSTIN GRINNELL The Language of My Father 140
AJ MITCHENER A Girl and Her Eckerd’s Bear 168
DAPHNE VLACHOJANNIS A Congo Story Part 3 244
MATTHEW FEENEY Scared inside front cover
SUZANNE FREEMAN Tunnel Vision 18
My New Ringtone 19
Tithonia (Torch) 20
LAURA KING Spiraled 26
DAVE MORRISON The Day After Mother’s Day 28
Best Time 29
JR THELIN The Dodgers in Six 38
Speed Reading in the U.S.A. (1960) 38
A Dance of Summer (1959) 39
DENNIS ROSS Origin Story 43
Whirlpool 44
KAY BOSG RAAF Marcia’s Dream of Majestic Weeping Willows 46
Better Than Ice Cream 47
Mea Culpa in Second Grade 48
She Was the One 49
VIRGINIA SMITH Welsh Mythology 53
PAULA YUP From his Garden 55
CAROL HAMILTON Red Hands 66
Caravaggio from Below 66
“Don’t Disturb the Birds” 67
DONNA WEAVER High Yellow 68
Meghan with an H 69
Pepperidge Farm Ain’t No Place 70
CAROLYN ADAMS Twelve Moons (Fourth Quarter) 82
If my Eyes Were Wrong 83
Cassini Dances with Saturn 84
Charon Checks Out 85
Heliosphere 86
From Earth to Oumuamua 87
MELISSA BOROWICZ BETRUS Fledglings 99
Plea to the Humpback Whale 100
MARYFRANCES WAGNER Mushroom Squad 101
The Deer 101
KATHRYN SADAKIERSKI Joe’s 108
SHARON SCHOLL Touch and Go 110
JENNY PATTON Remdesivir 114
GameStop 115
MARTIN MCGOWAN Compost 117
AKIVA ISRAEL The Joke’s on You 120
Hermaphrodite’s Fable 121
SANDEEP KUMAR MISHRA Pebbles 122
MICHAEL S GLASER In the Hospital 123
7th Grade 124
MICHAEL DARCHER Elegy for a Friend Not Yet Dead 139
CHARLES RAMMELKAMP The Cover-Up 143
DANA ROBBINS Mammography 145
PHIL FLOTT Steve’s House 158
DANA STAMPS II Not Alone 159
Trumpeting Regrets 160
ANTHONY BOTTI Photograph in Changing Light 166
BRAY MCDONALD Skirting the Emotive Edges of Reality 167
CAMERON DEAN GIBSON Don’t Drink the Mud Puddles
of DePue, IL 170
You Can’t Tell a Venomous Snake by the Way it Swims 171
NANCY L DAVIS Evening Prayers 172
Hospital 173
MARY K LINDBERG Dance of Atoms 186
CORINNE GUICHARD Jacqueline 187
JEAN VARDA I Found My Name in a Poem 200
Tundra Swan 201
Now Go the Whales 202
CAMERON MORSE The Rite 203
JBMULLIGAN know the enemy 215
ALINDA DICKINSON WASNER And There Is Eternity 217
Border Crossing: Who We Used to Be 218
JOHN DELANEY Paperbacks 222
RAND CARDWELL Transgressions of the Soul 223
Every Day Since 224
MARGUERITE GUZMAN BOUVARD The Histories We Carry 227
DANIEL FITZPATRICK The Student Recalls the Philosopher 228
E MARTIN PEDERSEN Not There Yet 243
STEVE DEUTSCH Strondes 256
Brothers 257 Steven Deutch
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