Authors
Ace Boggess
Gary Fincke
Halina Duraj
Robert Long Foreman
Benjamin Drevlow
Tommy Dean
Tom Noyes
Theodore Wheeler
Kate McIntyre
Mark Halliday
Sharon Dolin
Bruce Bond
Grant Chemidlin
Anna Kegler
A. Molotkov
Glenn Shaheen
Lara Egger
Craig Blais
Alicia Caldanaro
Holly Day
William Greenway
Kareem Tayyar
Jessica Holmes
Cindy Savett
Simone Muench & Jackie K. White
Zuleyha Ozturk
Wayne Miller
Jonathan Weinert
Diane K. Martin
Jennie Malboeuf
Brian Barker
Denise Duhamel
Luis Torres
Jim Daniels
Justin Hamm
Dell Lemmon
Katherine Shehadeh
Bill Hollands
Jeffrey Hecker
Michelle Hendrixson-Miller
Nicole Farmer
Nikoletta Gjoni
Kiara Nicole Letcher
John A. Nieves
William Archila
José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes
Matt McBride
Oliver Egger
John Muellner
Sandra Simonds
Cindy King
Andy Ray
Lisa Sewell
Virginia Konchan
Anthony Robinson
Cutter Streeby
Bruce Cohen
Tom Holmes
Willie James
Michael Mark
Kent Shaw
Jonathan Everitt
Jon Luthro
Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Patricia Hooper
Jocelyn Ulevicus
Heikki Huotari
Emily Koehn
Leslie Williams
Dana Sonnenschein
Adam Day
Adriana Riva
Translated by Denise Kripper
Allison deFreese
Benjamin Anthony Rhodes
Laura Smith
Ariel Machell
MICHAEL CHANG
Contents
FICTION
Save Your Apologies
The Worst Excuses for Murder
The Garden of Old Roses
Kapliczka
Dinosaur Park Revisited
Shonda
In Everything, There is Falling
Epilogue
What Their Mothers Said About Them at the Reception Dinner
NONFICTION
That Which Does Not Serve Us
Parody and Protest in Two Poems by Dean Young
POETRY
The Inconsistency Principle
Gardening, Not Architecture
Lunette 2
Lunette 16
Lunette 34
Too Many Loose Shoes in the Closet
What Has the Devil Buried in This Hole?
Love Letter
Brave New World
Zero Beat
Karma Banana
On the Subject of Soulmates and Artificial Fruit
from / The Vents /
A Time To Heal
Straight
The Awkwardness of Heaven
On the Night of My Third Death the Trees Became Birds
Let Me Please Look Out Of My Window
Wish
Self-Portrait Lined by Odysseas Elytis
Portrait as Landcape: What Quiver Said
Ocean City, Maryland
Texel, 1795
Glass Mailman
I Want to Have Been Blameless
At Every Border We Cross
The Two Near-Deaths of My Father Like the Resurrection of Roseanne
Decommissioned Clouds
Poem in Which My Aches are Hiding Stories
Poem in Which I Realize I am Not the Center of the Universe
Poem in Which My Identities Tangle
Brief Encounter
Hand on the Buzzer:Pressing Help
Banjo Frogs
I always keep an eye out for those places
I wasn't going to do one on Fentanyl
Movie Theaters Are Dying
Lucky Dog
Poem in Which I Tell, Don't Show
Baltic Avenue
Mediterranean Avenue
St. Charles Place
Temporary and Bound
Activated
sunday ironing
If Death Was Just a Better Decade
Screwdriver
Press Record and Play
Come Quiet
[And if I grow out of the ash...]
[Here’s the pop of a couplet...]
Critical Race Theory
Moonset
The God of Distraction
The God of Wood Paneling
Fifty-Third Annual Report of the Trustees of the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-
Minded at Waltham, For the Year Ending September 30, 1900
Seventy-Second Annual Report of the Trustees of the Massachusetts School for
the Feeble-minded at Waltham for the Year Ending November 30, 1919
Company Worth Keeping
Bennington, Vermont
Leaving Vermont
Just Like Elizabeth Bishop
Essay on Discovering that this Essay Will One Day Be Used to Train AI
Noumenon
Big Business
Eclogue with Fire
Midlife
Coda
Salutation
Lessen, Midnight
Post-(Modern)-Office
Birth Story Number 58 as Told from the End of Time
My Revised Brief Biography
Our Moms
After the Doctor Explains to My Father
What its Like to Have a Lot of Money
Most Men Want Not Only to Be Bad. They Want to Be Bold. They Want to Be Wiser.
Salvage
River Road
When I am Diagnosed, an Absent Family Member Reappears to Ask
if My Disability is Genetic
The Pattern
The Shapes a Body Makes When You Stop Looking Everywhere At Once
Lunar Logic
If It’s The Mona Lisa
Mother Who Wears Her Heart On Her Sleeve As Winter Rabbit
Mother Who Wears Her Heart On Her Sleeve As A Flotation Device
Colder Sighs
An AIDS-related Death: Poem for the Quilt
Seeing Song
Shadow Song
TRANSLATIONS
Salt
CHAPBOOK FINALISTS
Postcard
Most Nipple Rings Are Stars
Lustrum, or Moving-Day Poem
Insect Care
How Change Happens
[Memory sleeps in the attic like a box of Christmas ornaments]
[I talk about my time there. A new friend asks Did you ever drink from the river?]
[Was coming home a kind of death?]
UNCUT GEMS
MILAGRO