issue five

The Facts

by Marda Messick

You Were Not Yet Ready

by Emry Trantham

What’s the point

by Molly Bolton

Flaming Edge

by Emma Furman

When my water broke, I reached down and tasted your coming

by Nikki Ummel

Child Won’t You Eat Your Food

by Reinfred Dziedzorm Addo

Making a Midden

by Benjamin Morris

Visit

by Catherine Zickgraf

A Woman Might Say This Is What Birth Looks Like

by Rebecca Brock

After Taking My First Dose of Lexapro

by Nikki Ummel

This Is Not a Poem About my Dead Dog

by Emry Trantham

Graft: a sijo

by Rosalind Rousseau

I Am What I Ate: Foods From My Childhood

by Kevin Brown

Colonies Failed There: My Narrative Inheritance

by Marshall Moore

AV Rasmussen moved from Dallas, Texas to Columbus, MS in the midst of the Covid pandemic and fell in love with the landscape of the Deep South. Their photographs have appeared (under the name “Allene Nichols”) in journals including Mason Street: The Literary Magazine of Newark Public Library, San Pedro, River Review, and Aurora Journal, in the anthologies Into the Glen: Into the Light and Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku and Haiga; and in the online exhibition Believe 2021 with Gallerium.Art.

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