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Cover photos: “Monterosso” and “Sardinia Sunset” by Steven Pelcman
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, Joanne Durham
Thomas Mangan The Causeway to Nowhere 9
Todd Easton Mills Objective Chance 27
Sandeep Kumar Mishra Dead Dreams 36
Andrea J Garland Chicken Flu 47
George Longenecker Never too Late 60
Douglas Curran How to Tell a Joke with a Gun to Your Head 77
Anne Hosansky The Tennis Player 83
Russ Doherty The Rope-Nest 93
Rayne Ayers-Debski Medic 105
Lenore Hirsch Luck on Orchard Avenue 112
Lenny Levine Compromising Position 121
SJ MacLean Over the Hedge 131
Bethany Bruno Laying Fallow 144
Sean Burke Running the Pit 184
Beth Escott Newcomer The Turd under the Piano 202
Joe Sumrall The Importance of Eye Color 220
Shauna Checkley Cat Scratch Lotto Fever 247
Grace Glass The Protest 256
Eugene Radice Remembering the Future 275
Vivian Lawry The Old Home Place 20
George Longenecker License Plates and Prisoners 71
Louise Turan Two Diaries, One Wish 158
Pat Murphy McClelland Happening Female 168
SW Gordon A Curly Tale 176
Lauren Smith To Boldly Go, Together 213
Ryan M Moser Losing the Power to Choose 233
Barbara A Rouillard From My Barbara* 238
Ingrid Blaufarb Hughes My Grandmother’s Stories 264
Susan Johnson Queen 8
The Wood Splitter 8
Tim Louis Macaluso The Waitress 19
John Middlebrook Haiku for Sky Songs 19
Tom Raithel In Praise of Mud 20
Matthew J Spireng Trust In 23
Brother, Made Up 24
Reading William Stafford while Waiting Overnight at O’Hare for a Connecting Flight 25
Paula Yup I Don’t Know 26
Jack Granath Allegiance to the Season 34
Vincent J Tomeo Sight 9/24/21 35
Mark Rubin Two Apples 35
Suzanne Ondrus Flirting by or On Moto 42
Sean Bentley Outbreak 44
Paula Goldman Milkweed 46
Thomas R Moore Ploughing 56
Mark Thalman Teaching Greek and Roman Mythology to Seventh Graders 57
Retirement 58
George Longenecker Zelienople, Pennsylvania 69
Confirm your identity 70
Devoid of Ideas 71
Miriam Aroner As the Crow Dies 74
Am I My Sister’s Keeper? 75
RT Castleberry A Benevolence of Constellations 76
Rikki Santer Ode to the Candidate Commercials of Ohio’s Special 15th Congressional Seat Election 77
Michel Steven Krug Societies 80
Jane Rosenberg LaForge Second Life 81
Wayne Lee Uncle October 82
William Derge At Regents Park 89
The Good Doctor 90
Michael S Glaser Mikey 91
White Gloves 92
Marion Deutsche Cohen Statement: Not as Afraid as Lawrence O’Donnell 101
Statement: I Was Brought up to be Perfect 102
Statement: The Layers of Love 103
Social Life, Spring 2022 104
“Write What You Know” 104
Mirana Comstock Thin Ice 107
Moment 108
Deborah H Doolittle I Pour the Cream 108
That’s Icarus Drowning 109
Seamus Heaney Remembers the Bogwort of His Youth 110
Seamus Heaney on the Names of Harebells 111
St. Francis Preaches to the Birds 112
Jill Veader A beam of light is shining on your face 118
Joe Oppenheimer The Gift 119
John Tustin I Meet Li Po Deep in the Milky Way 120
Robert Coles The Epitaph 128
Laura Celise Lippman `Double-Decker Death 128
Seasons of the Lake 129
Michael Ansara The Wisdom of Eels 130
Steven Dee Kish I Got an Education 141
Rodger LeGrand Zombified 143
Ron Gaskill One Who Wondered 144
Stephen Bridge Two 154
Scott T Hutchison Sideshow 155
Laura Grace Weldon Heirlooms 157
Dining Room Chair on I-271’s Median 157
Bart Sutter San Vicente Creek 162
Welcome to the Desert 164
In the Datil Mountains 166
James Kangas Rangoon 167
Charles H Johnson Language 171
Unsettlers 172
Lost Cause 173
The Lost Generations 173
On the Road 174
Bull’s-Eye 175
Jim Tilley Someone’s God Somewhere 180
Steven Pelcman My Father’s Chair 181
The Last Year 182
Lynore Gause Banchoff Saving Life 194
What Water Can Do 195
Girls in Waiting 197
Passing Parade 199
Linda K Miller Payback 201
Joan Canby Waiting 209
Joyce Meyers Errata 209
The joy of grapefruit on a rainy morning 211
Fermentation 211
Allison Collins Love Ya, Hon 216
Rodney Torreson Each Tree-top Hooding the Grove 218
Behind the Davenport and Chair at Cliff and Gwenie’s 219
Marjorie Power 23rd & Syracuse 227
When Evenings Pass as Unseen Immaculate Ships 228
Dan Sicoli man with no chin 229
incompletion 231
Jane Barrett Ross The Black Dog 233
Dianne Nelson Oberhansly Deep Inside 235
Regarding My Friendship with Georgia O’Keefe 236
Untitled #76 236
Brett Salsbury Sleeping Lion 237
The Downtowner 238
Brian C Billings Barnum’s Crackers: Out of the Box? 243
An Ode to William Banting, the Original Low-Carb Guru 245
Derek Lake Berghuis No Dessert but Thank You 246
Daniel Lusk Parables 251
Moshu among the Cars 252
Elizabeth Weir Francesca Da Rimini 254
Coal Delivery 255
Nightfall 255
Gayl Teller Final Clearing 261
Ron Riekki Jesus 262
The Funeral 262
When I Say I’m Sámi-American 263
Three Blind Mice 264
Gaylord Brewer Snake 271
Autumnal Notebook 272
October of That Year 273
The Balance Owed 274
Mark Belair The Reading Room 274
Susan Dyer The Reckoning 291
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