FALL by Joshua Garcia

/ / Issue 23

 

I am confronted, when I step outside, by trees
dripping with yellow & wet with black. 
I have failed. I have spent my time not loving.
Or is there such a thing? Once, a man told me, 
I have lived my life in a way that will end alone,
then moved my hand away from him, holding it 
at my side as he dropped to his knees. In a cold 
snap, a ginkgo undresses in one felled breath.
Is the anticipation of spring not also a kind of warmth?
I initiate sex with someone I do not love & pray,
a deciduous instinct, Please don’t let me use him.
What I mean is, Please don’t let me. 

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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