fall 2020
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Neurons, Metal, Seed
Reading Rocks and Mountains
Susan Landgraf
verses upon the burning of our house
Amanda Merpaw
Fragments of a World
Dayna Patterson
Netsuke
When We Wake Together in a Lost City
Iris Jamahl Dunkle
My Father's House
A.N. Higgins
Pattern Recognition
Tolu Oloruntoba
Bracketed
A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare
Danielle Badra
The Northern Flicker
Identic
Andrew Lafleche
from Vanishing Twin Syndrome: VII
James Cagney
In a Dark Field
Jesse Sensibar
The Narrow Road to Deep Marriage
John Wall Barger
Okapi Wood Bison Kristi Maxwell
Bingo Card for the End Times
Milla van der Have
What We Do When We Run Out of Elephants
Shareen K. Murayama
Horses Innocence, Experience
Ryan Eavis
One exists
The embroidering light
you learn
J.I. Kleinberg
Routes on the Red Subarctic Archipelago Tongue Heather Simeney MacLeod


Bracketed
—after Philip Metres
Identity isn’t [always easy to identify
there is blood and belief and] an end—
it’s a portal, [the acquisition of language,
the untrained turns of tongue,] a deportation
from the country [profiting off precise word-fare by
attacking ancient inkwells, those dark pools] of mirrors,
an inflection [inside the terrified esophagus
instinctual utterance of danger] within a question,
punctuation is [the alternative to silence
this revolution is illegible] the sentence
of birth [and death is a foreign dialect].