CALLS TO ORDER by Stephanie Kaylor

/ / Issue 23

It is September and there is no love

cleaner: apples red as a ribbon

knotted around the white dove’s

broken neck. As schoolchildren,

we were brought into the orchards,

biting into Empires and tossing

what we didn’t want, told that

we always can. I grew too tall

too early, and still, in mazes built

of hay, pretended to not already see

the routes to all their naked ends.

ISSUE 23

POETRY

SELF PORTRAIT AS MINOTAUR by Kiyoko Reidy

 

AN ORDINARY WEAKNESS by Mikko Harvey

 

TWO POEMS by Xochiquetzal Candelaria

 

DER KLEINE KATECHISMUS by Constance Hansen

 

CALLS TO ORDER by Stephanie Kaylor

 

& LORD KNOWS by Kwame Opoku-Duku

 

TWO SECTIONS FROM “THE BREAKUP” by Mag Gabbert

 

THE STATE BIRD OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE by Matthew Tuckner

 

CENTO FOR LONGING by Rage Hezekiah

 

ARS MORIENDI (FOR JEFF BEZOS & ELON MUSK) by Benjamin Aleshire

 

TWO POEMS by Perry Janes

 

FALL by Joshua Garcia

 

MOVEMENT by Brett Hanley

 

FICTION

THE GAIN by Jennifer Solheim

 

THE APPARENT PATH by Casey Guerin

 

ART

by Anna Beth Lee

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