Black Walnut Is the War Tree by Laura Da’ War Camps To track well is to identify patterns by their impressions: walk, trot, scamper, lope, drag, leap, gallop, bound. Each gait tells the story of its prey in a narrative of evasion. To hunt well one must be both...
I Would Like To Step Out Of My Heart And Go Walking Beneath The Enormous Sky by Jeff Whitney Where did my life go? Jimmy Stewart asks in It’s A Wonderful Lifeand he gets more than he bargained for, a big time unmistakableblast that can’t be explained. Hello, sister....
How I Learned to Translate Shadows by Joshua Zeitler after Shivani Mehta I was born with a book for a body. I think there’s been a mistake, my mother said, refusing to hold me despite the appealing firmness of my spine. I was a clothbound hardcover, the...
The Landscape Persists + Letter to E, Corvallis by Natalie Eleanor Patterson The Landscape Persists Hannah drives me to Salem for the first timein ten months exactly. Last time I was on this highway I had someone else’s hand in mine& my own spit limning my hair...
Huitain for Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec by Lizzy Ke Polishan Lizzy Ke Polishan Lizzy Ke Polishan is a poet from Pennsylvania. Her recent work appears in Gulf Coast, The Greensboro Review, RHINO, The Penn Review, and PRISM International, among others. She is a poetry...
