JUNE 2022. Cover Art: *Woman with Spider’s Web Between Bare Trees*, 1803, by Caspar David Friedrich, courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Introduction

Rachel Marie Patterson and Dara-Lyn Shrager, Editors

There’s a Man with a Shotgun Who Shoots Blackbirds Trying to Roost in the Trees in His Yard, which is Inside the City Limits of Amory, MS

Samuel Prestridge; artwork by Pieter Boel

When the unlisted number was answered

Daniel Edward Moore; artwork by Vasily Kandinsky

After The Garden

Ashley Kunsa; artwork by Alex Hirsch

My Body: This Forest of Longing

Kim Welliver; artwork by Claire Taylor

Rescue

K.T. Landon; artwork by Alan Bern

Says The Stone

Meghan Sterling; artwork by Claire Taylor

Touched

Cynthia Marie Hoffman; artwork by George Inness

The Suburb

Heidi Seaborn; artwork by Sylwia Hans

The Present

Michael Lauchlan; artwork by Alfred Stieglitz

Climbing Down The Inner Rope

Kelly R. Samuels; artwork by Claire Taylor

The Calf

Jak Emerson Kurdi; artwork courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

The Landscape Emerging

Sarah Dickenson Snyder; artwork by Batnadiv HaKarmi

moral inventory sonnet featuring the serenity prayer

Anthony Thomas Lombardi; artwork by Nicole Flaherty Kimball

On Power

Jai Hamid Bashir; artwork by Patrick Bayly

This Pig IS Big Boy

Alyssandra Tobin; artwork by Nicole Flaherty Kimball

The Night We All Had Insomnia

Jessica Purdy; artwork by P. Gasparis Schotti

Abcedarian for the first twenty-four days

Batnadiv HaKarmi; artwork by Batnadiv HaKarmi

Fragment // postpartum

Chelsea Dingman; artwork by Batnadiv HaKarmi

Torn

Jessica Goodfellow

Desire For Korea

Bo Schwabacker; artwork by Mircea Boboc

What Grows In South Korea