Vol. 6 No. 4

Spring 2024

Editor's Note
Anniversary
Borrowed Dream
At Dan's Wake
Birdhouse
I Bring You Home
Flicker
For All the Ways We Do Not Touch
Pigeon Slay
Ode to Orange
A Three-Legged Dog on a Christmas Card
The Boat
The Tree Guy
Pigeon Face
It’s Winter Now, The Fish is Dead
Apples
Piñata Nights
About as Close as My Husband’s Ever Going to Get to a Love Poem
Birdhouse in Light
Familiar
Holding On
White Dragon
Cough
Pearl
I Wake Up to My Dog Gnawing
The water at Camp Lejeune
Princess and Stars
Boyhood
Pathophysiology
I Dreamed Us in A Rocketship
Bird
Duplex
i dreamt i gave birth to the opossum in my backyard
What Comes To Hand
Dream-Inducing Dragon
Red Circles
Río Paraná
The Launch We Carry
Two Dragons
Butterflies
A Teaspoon of Soil
Plum Rain
No Pity for My Scorched Lips
Her therapist told her to write her dead father a letter
Scissoring
A Request of My Lips
You Will Find No Place Like Your Heart
Names of Black Birds (IV)
Post Mortem
Duh
Chanting Kaddish for My Estranged Father
Her Chickens
Living is a form of not being sure*
Cavalier Sally
My Best Friend in Kindergarten
Olenka
Hosed
Velma and Willie
Code-Switching, a sonnet
Lately, certain months decline their customary duty
Jack O’Lantern
NuNu's Dream
this is not the thrill i was promised
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THEY RETURNED TO THE HOUSE AFTER THE WAR
The Anorexic Conservationist
Opaque Red Crystal Oxidized
When I enter a place where I am to stay
A Premonition While Looking at ‘Ambulance Call’ by Jacob Lawrence
Best Wishes for the Expectant Mother