A Lesson in Cartography / Everything Is Made of Water and Full of Gods
Zachary Lundgren A LESSON IN CARTOGRAPHY He wrestled a stingray from the ocean, Joe did, laugh- jogging his way up the beach. Combing his black ocean hair, he smiled, showing us all the cuts between his fingers, sand colored to…
Poem beginning with Duolingo practice sentence / Ode to the Astronaut Who Mistook His Own Piss for Stars
David Eileen Poem beginning with Duolingo practice sentence Mi abuelo quiere morir en su país. It’s not my tongue but I like to practice naming what my grandfather can’t have: for this red field to be his & his…
Shadow Sonnet
Devon Balwit SHADOW SONNET The children are anxious, but no more so than their parents, who are also anxious, so much so that they day-drink on top of their meds, Xanax or Zoloft, worrying about their kids’ drinking on top…
Grownup Gods / After Fifty Years
Claire Scott GROWNUP GODS Myths are stories we tell each other to make living tolerable. Martyr by Kaveh Akbar The grownup gods aren’t working out. Some on sabbatical some lounging on the beaches of…
Nostalgia
Donna Pucciani NOSTALGIA We’d dug out the photos from a closet full of old things, the boxes vaguely dusty, and decided to pay attention to the past. We started at the beginning, our beginning, the Seventies, when life seemed simple…
