ISSUE NINE
The Health of the Sick

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

POETRY

MICHAEL BAZZETT
Family Dinner
The Whisper Game

KELLY MOORE
Chair
Love Poem for Mr. Blank at the Hospital

JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS
Mask

DAN CHU
Cemetery Picnic

ALICIA MOUNTAIN
Deep Borough

LAYLA BENITEZ-JAMES
Ceiling Hung Over the Room

ROBERT FERNANDEZ
But Whoever Has Been Forgiven Little Loves
Little
A camel

ERYN GREEN
America Windows (Goblin Valley)
America Windows (Palo Verde)

VIRGINIA KONCHAN
Terra Nova
Death Pastoral

MYRONN HARDY
The Moth in the Dryer

MALACHI BLACK
For the Suburban Dead

LESLIE HARRISON
Kinship Parable
Wandering Heart Parable

REBECCA ZWEIG
[santiago drew me a diagram of how it was
required]
Я вас любил; after the poem by Pushkin

POLINA BARSKOVA
Fish
Mutabor
(translated by Valzhyna Mort)

CHRIS DAHL
Bear Tries the Child Mask

ELISA GABBERT
Don’t Think
Awake & Alone

SANDRA SIMONDS
Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
Gong Gong Gong

FRANCES REVEL
Neon Seam

BARRY SCHWABSKY
Theremin
A Feeling of Blue

PETRO MOYSAENKO
Unforeseen Personal Matters

HOLLY AMOS
It’s Called a Boarding Hat
Pass It On

KARY WAYSON
Poem for a Poem (with You in It)
Lady in Pink

SOPHIA HOLTZ
alphabet
a good clear window and nothing on the
desk

DEVON WALKER-FIGUEROA
Curse of Bodie

GILLIAN OSBORNE
In the Woods
Hetero

ADAM SCHEFFLER
Autocomplete Questions
Love Poem with Parrots

MATTHIAS GÖRITZ
So Many People Are There During the
Day
2, 3 Revolutions
(translated by Mary Jo Bang)

SARAH BARBER
Birds Aren’t Real

PETER MARKUS
What I Still Feel Inside, Or Some Other
Darkness
More Birds Than I Know What to Do With

LIAM OCTOBER O’BRIEN
Look What I’m Growing Here

JON DAVIS
The Body Is the Site of Discipline
Vintage

RUTH JOFFRE
Glacier Sounds

BENJAMIN LANDRY
How Many Will Be Too Many
Stock Ponds

STEVIE EDWARDS
Dread Myth

HENRY ISRAELI
The Americans
The Trial of David Hofstein Redacted

TOM PAINE
Solastalgia
Tidepool

ROBIN LAMER RAHIJA
Future Food

SUPHIL LEE PARK
In Short

ANGIE MACRI
Alligator Pie

K.A. HAYS
Lines Written in the Down East
Community Hospital Emergency
Room, Machias, Maine
From My Pocket on a Hike, a Tone Warns
Me

JESSICA GOODFELLOW
North

PHILLIP B. WILLIAMS
Final First Poem

DONIKA KELLY
Electronic Superhighway

JOHN BLAIR
The Testimony of Ebb Cade, Injected
without His Knowledge with
Plutonium-239 by Doctors of the
Manhattan Project

JILL MCDONOUGH
Testicles at Trinity, the Atomic Testing
Site

AIDAN FORSTER
Mink Portrait as Viral Elegy
Mink Portrait as Seasonal Threat-Gape

JAY DESHPANDE
Bildungsroman

KAREN RIGBY
To the Boot

J. MAE BARIZO
She Felt No Shadow Should Fall Upon
Her

CINDY JUYOUNG OK
There Are Photographs of Small Children
Laughing in Black and White That
People Stop and Cry at in Museums
but Ignore in Homes
Shakeout

ELLY BOOKMAN
Code Red

ALEXANDRA WATSON
Night Shades (or, Where the People Are
Unraced)

LAYNE ECKENSBERGER
Bela Tarr’s 2011 The Turin Horse

ANDY AXEL
Continental Breakfast

ANNA LEAHY
Hindsight
Blood Planet

REBECCA MORGAN FRANK
Invention #4

STELLA WONG
When the Still Breathing Watch the
Stillborn

HE XIANG
The Goddess of Democracy Traces Her
Family Tree

TANYA LARKIN
Les Tendres Plaintes
Uber-Killer

TOBY ALTMAN
from To Feel Things and Their Names
[I was a child; I went in the woods to
piss myself.]
[Though there is no end to weariness.]

AARON FAGAN
We Who Are About to Die Salute You

A.R. ZARIF
I Poke the Ground Beef

JOSHUA MARIE WILKINSON
Rower, Chrysanthemum
Stop Laughing

CYNTHIA CRUZ
Self-Portrait in Landscape with Felt
Puppet

CHARD DENIORD
After the Game

SUE D. BURTON
Sand Dreams of an Hourglass Figure, but
in the Morning Thinks About Mortality

CAROLYN GUINZIO
Where the Finch Ends and the Flower
Begins

LAURA PAUL WATSON
Leaving
All the Things Stronger than
Chemotherapy According to Everyone
Other than My Oncologist

KATHLEEN MARIS PALTRINERI
Dialysis
Against Warfare

ANGELA BALL
The Patient May Be Delirious

JULIA KOLCHINSKY DASBACH
Week 4: Poppy Seed

ELIZABETH A.I. POWELL
A Lying Perfume Bottle of Chanel Pour Monsieur

SYDNEY LEA
Assumptions and Cullings

MARY BIDDINGER
Heaven and Its Orange Flowers
Antique Filament

LEAH UMANSKY
More: Four Scenes

ERIC ROY
Small Plane Coming Down in a Neighbor’s
Pool

JOHN S. O’CONNOR
Blanche: Communication Disorder
104-02
Forcefield: Communication Disorder
103-19

KRYSTAL LANGUELL
Bottleneck, Sunday

KIRSTIN ALLIO
Swan Point XIX.

NIK DE DOMINIC
Well

LAURA S. MARSHALL
Metrics

V. PENELOPE PELIZZON
Euphorbia

ANDREW SEGUIN
Know Your Backyard Birds
Sunny Hands Make for Bright Work

DEREK OTSUJI
Paperweight

CONNOR L SIMONS
Sonnet for the Dead Woman, from Her
Son (Pointless Songs)

J. ESTANISLAO LOPEZ
Places with Terrible Wi-Fi

DAN O’BRIEN
Prometheus

JACK JUNG
Gone Boy

JONATHAN WELLS
How Did I Love Myself Again

FICTION

LUCAS IBERICO LOZADA
El Doc

EMILY MITCHELL
Her Face I Cannot See

OLIVIA CLARE
Company

JILL EISENSTADT
The Carnal Education

MELISSA BENECHE
No Special Need

SYDNEY BRADLEY
Instructions for Sacrifice

CARA HOFFMAN
DeChellis

JODY AZZOUNI
Keeping things to ourselves. A lot of
things. Most things.