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...
So You’re Fluent by Lauren Mallett They ask meThey ask me to prove itThey ask me where I learnedThey ask me but not at home In this house hereBuilt by sea, hand, ropeI dreamed up myself in two languagesMy houseWhere there stops by no inspectorNo money to be...
Blood, I Wonder (a sonnet) + Love Notes to his Dead Wife by Kari Despain Blood, I Wonder (a sonnet) Plane lands. Vegas, and like always, a setof girls dance on the escalator. Boysclaim what they’ll drink, hail an Uber through sweatstench, cologne, cigarettes, fried...
Burdens of Mortality by Jeneva Stone —Lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia (Aeneid) Down the gray channel of highway, flecked by endless whitedashes, above me drowned in daylight may be stars. I’vebeen crying for no reason again, not even for the diminutionof...
Bad Vegan by Dale Trumbore I feed my cats chicken by the canful.We kill the ants by poisoning the queen,drive past each violently droughted yardwhile ours gleams like sea glass. We rescued the first hornworm,then—more, more—filled a bucketwith soapy water. Drowned...
