ROAD TO BYBLOS by Madeleine Cravens

/ / Issue 24

Mechanized time was an invention 
created to sustain 
entire empires.

And love, I knew, 
could be expressed 
through an idiom about graves. 

We rode past the beachside
nightclub and three
cement factories. 

I wasn’t in love. 
I never knew what time it was.

Smoke unfurled from the airbase.
A pregnant dog howled
from under a fig tree. 

POETRY

EVERY SEVENTEEN YEARS CICADAS RUPTURE THE EARTH by Hannah Corrie

A STORY ENDING WITH AN OFFERING by Willie Lin

TWO POEMS by Meredith Nnoka

TENDING GRIEF AT THE GREAT SALT LAKE, A RITUAL by Kathryn Knight Sonntag

WHOEVER IS NOT HOME GROWS SICK by David Keplinger and Bruce Bond

AFTERMATH by Robert Wood Lynn

LOVE POEM WITH A MAGGOT INFESTATION by Janelle Tan

TWO POEMS by Helena Mesa

ROAD TO BYBLOS by Madeleine Cravens

IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING by Majda Gama

THE FAMILY STONE by Catherine Norris

FICTION

MEMORY FIELDS by Liz Howey

THE LEAST AMERICAN FACE by M. Y. Li

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