Issue 83

Letter from the Managing Editor

Far Away Like Cuba

Nancy Naomi Carlson & Esperanza Hope Snyder 

 Introduction: The Metronome of the Cuban Soul

Ramón Hondal

Awakening

         Four

Amando Fernández

     Agronomy Lesson 

     Interior Testimony

     Listen to My Silence 

Víctor Rodríguez Núñez

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Reina María Rodríguez 

Objects for surviving death

         A rake

Wendy Guerra 

Far Away Like Cuba 

Living on the Airwaves 

Hybrid

Jeff Hoffman

Snapping Turtle

Fiction

Albe Harlow

The Baby

Aparna Sanyal 

                   Inheritance 

Nonfiction

Christopher Citro

Licked by Our World We Get Licked by Our World 

Clara Bosak-Schroeder

Horror and Wonder

Susan Olding

                 Lacquer

Poetry

Lydia T. Liu 

paean to hair

Michael Dechane 

Squirrel Hunting Diptych

     Nancy Naomi Carlson

      Out of an Absence of Caution

            Small Griefs 

Cover Photo

David Scherrer

Grave