Issue 12.4

Contents

To read the magazine in the mixed genre, sequential print order, start here.

Shorts

Running for Now
Isaman Cann. Approaching acceptance.

Tarof
Elaje López. Examining a custom.

Screeching
Rosalinda Alcalá. Interactions involving a parrot.

Learning the Ropes
Vern Fein. An adult takes a summer job.

Cherry Bridges
Zary Fekete. Community behind the fences.

Art

Over Pass
Larena Nellies-Ortiz. Photograph. 

We Took
Daniel Lehan. Painted poem.

With Deft Flicks
Daniel Lehan. Painted poem.

Wally Flemist Giant
Lindy Giusta. Mixed-media drawing.

Snail Trail
Kelsey Overstreet. Mixed-media painting.

Gather Round
Emily Zhang. Charcoal drawing.

Hidden Gems

Trilobite, Dissected
Dan Wiencek. Layers of time.

I wanted this to be a hopeful poem
Lauren Scherer. Hope and fate.

Confronting Mild Elevations
R. Gerry Fabian. Gauging time.

Cigarette Lighter
Harrison Fisher. A type of insanity.

Self-help
David S. Higdon. Listening and noticing.

What the White Wall Looked Like as They Prepared to Stitch My Hand at A&E
Samantha Ng. An ocean of thought.

She wanted a queen
Sheila E. Murphy. Working it out.

Ice Skating
David S. Higdon. Couples on the ice.

Someone is covering
Mykyta Ryzhykh. Marks.

Pleroma
Dylan Hussey. Exist through the gift shop.

If
R. James Sennett Jr. Choosing optimism.

Dreamcatcher
Jorge López Llorente. A daydream through time.

Memory
Beate Sigriddaughter. A pause.

My Mother Demonstrates How to Coil a Rope
William Nelson. Then and now.

Mango
Jiji Lubis. Growing up.

Erasure/Found/Collage Poems

Now My Heart
Evan H. Brisson. (Treaserasure 183); Source: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Word + Image

Wallpaper
Marie Carbone & Dale Going. Collage with poem response. 

The Lost Star
Leisel Brex. Poem with photo. 







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