Introduction

Rachel Marie Patterson and Dara-Lyn Shrager, Editors

Anaphora That Has Lost its Penultimate Couplet

Tara Mesalik MacMahon; Artwork by Sherry Smith Bell

Another Year Since Mama Died

Alicia Elkort; Artwork by Tanya Standish McIntyre

Degenerate Era of an Expanding Universe

Jennifer Polson Peterson; Artwork by Tanya Standish McIntyre

Equinox

Tanya Standish McIntyre; Artwork by Tanya Standish McIntyre

For the Red-Brown Cow Whose Eyes I Caught from the Backseat of My Mother’s Chevy Nova, 1993

Mara Lee Grayson; Artwork by Carol M. Highsmith

Galaxial Clot

Kevin Clark; Artwork by Wilhelm Leibl

Glossographia

Clare Paniccia; Artwork by Sherry Smith Bell

How I Became A Daughter

Janine Certo; Artwork by Stela Zaharieva

Keeping house

Stephanie Niu; Artwork courtesy of Creative Commons

Meditation at Magnuson

Rebecca Hoogs; Artwork by Alexandra N Sherman

Morning In Key West

LaWanda Walters; Artwork by Alexandra N Sherman

My Grandmother Called Me a Heifer

Alafia Nicole Sessions; Artwork by Alexandra N Sherman

On Dying

Christopher Nelson; Artwork by Tanya Standish McIntyre

Pencil Sharpener

Veronica Kornberg; Artwork by Stela Zaharieva

Reasons I Don’t want Children

Dom Witten; Artwork by Annie Wood

Sound Waves

Jill Kitchen; Artwork by Alexandra N Sherman

Sowing It

Julie Choffel; Artwork by Tanya Standish McIntyre

The Wizard of Oz Museum

John Gallaher; Artwork by Tanya Standish McIntyre

& Suddenly It Occurs to Me that All My Life I’ve Been an Untranslated Eugenio Montale Poem

Dante DiStefano; Artwork by Alexandra N Sherman

[Contributors]