Issue 79

Letter from the Managing Editor

We’ve Been Known

Denise Duhamel

Introduction: Poetic “Justice”

Allison

I Have Been Known

Anonymous

I’ve Been Known

Edgar

I’ve Been Known

Hannah

I’ve Been Known

Marcus

I’ve been known

Nigel

I’ve Been Known

Patrick

I’ve been known

S.

I’ve Been Known

Hybrid

Sarah Koenig

Georgetown

Flicker

The Resident Ghosts

Fiction

Aimee Parkison

Ducky

Gillian Wiley Rose

Birds of Another Paradise

Maya Jewell Zeller

The In-Between

Nonfiction

Ryan C. Molen

Twitterland

Anjoli Roy

Feast or Feathers

Poetry

Marjorie Becker

To Stitch the Myrtle World, that Crepe

Nickole Brown

Self-Portrait as Land Snail

Jehanne Dubrow

Swarm

Jessica Jacobs

Nevertheless

In Wyoming

The First Rule of Rock Tumbling Is Rocks Must Be of Similar Hardness

Aviva Kasowski

Jerusalem, 1991

Kevin Phan

[In every life, a moment or two, for heaven’s sake]

[“Every word,” wrote Beckett, “is like an unnecessary stain”]

In last night’s dream, I collected my dead mother in my arms]

Alexandra Teague

[I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.]

Ecce Homo

John Sibley Williams

Imprint

Aperture

 Nicholas Yingling

Birth of a Naturalist

Against Darkness

Cover Photo

David Scherrer

Chefchaouen II