ISSUE FIFTEEN
THE SECRET HISTORY



POETRY

RICK SNYDER
Ages of Man

STEPHANIE ELLIS SCHLAIFER
Syncretism
Neo-Babylonians

BRANDON DOWNING
Sonnets About the Real Sun

CHRIS STROFFOLINO
Sabbath Dream

RODRIGO TOSCANO
These Lands
Smelling Bermuda

ROB SCHLEGEL
Two Thousand and Twenty-Two
Another Green World

MASLEN BODE WARD
The Secret
From Porn on the Big TV

ADAM CLAY
Against Confusion

DOMENICA MARTINELLO
Cradle
Stitch

MATTHEW GELLMAN
Color Theory

FARRYL LAST
Pigment     

KATHARINE WHITCOMB
Winter :: Skimmed Milk White
Sagittarius Full-Moon Horoscope

CARLOTA GAMBOA
I Love Computer
A boy cured my anxious attachment

MARY JO SALTER
Not on Speaking Terms

WILL SCHUTT
Doormat

H. M. COTTON
Lemon Dressing

ALISON PELEGRIN
Gauche

BOB HICOK
Yes Siree Bub
Lovely Weather Whether It Should Be or
Not

JOSE HERNANDEZ DIAZ
The Graffiti Artist
The Thief

MADILYNE IGLEHEART
Flying Worms and the Word of God

BRIAN SWANN
A garden
A squirrel

ELIZABETH ROBINSON
Unfurred Rhapsody
No One’s Birthday Rhapsody

L. A. JOHNSON
Hawks

GENEVIEVE KAPLAN
A Box for Birds to Live In

CHANCE DIBBEN
Time of the Signs

NICHOLAS MONTEMARANO
The Seven Plagues

SKYLER OSBORNE
Ten Acre Song
Velocity

GILAD JAFFE
Issues of Velocity

GEORGE KOVALENKO
Whodunit

JOHN GALLAHER
What’s a Book of Philosophy For?
Beyond the Golden Horizon

ANGIE ESTES
Extravagant Vagrant

ORLANDO RICARDO MENES
Moonlight at Millbank

MATTHEW THORBURN
Without Us
Obituary
Jo Painting

JAMES KELLY QUIGLEY
Pictures From Cézanne
Vroom and Thwa

CRAIG BEAVAN
Idyll with Horseshoe Crabs and
Millions of Years

MARK NOWAK
From Again

RACHEL GALVIN
Ode to a Pickle Barrel

JEHANNE DUBROW
Persistent Effusion
Sonnet, Exiled

MONIKA CASSEL
Fracture (Twenty-Three Observations on
Nesting and Migration)

NIKOLA CHAMPLIN
Passage

CHRISTOPHER CITRO
When Our Grasses Seem Humming

MARGARET YAPP
End Meet Taut, Long

DAVID RODERICK
The Bonbon App

MALACHI BLACK
Ultrasound

EMMA WINSOR WOOD
October

MICHAEL CHANG
Siamese Connection

BENJAMIN S. GROSSBERG
My Octopus Lover Proposes
Sometimes when I’m splayed out in
despair

ELISE THI TRAN
On the drive back home,
Long So Live Nor Much So See

SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY
For a Client Who Never Returned from
the Hospital

NOAH WARREN
University of California

DONNA STONECIPHER
The Influencer
Pink Rose

SAMUEL AMADON
From Monolith [Out. And a speedy car
comes curvy,]
From Monolith [I stand myself to my
monolith,]

LAURA BANDY
Day for Night

JARED HARÉL
Admission

JULIE HANSON
Dignity

COLIN POPE
The Most Interesting Thing About Head
Lice

ALLAN PETERSON
Slim Chances

ELAINE JOHANSON
Rut

DANA ISOKAWA
Records
Shoal

JULIA ANNA MORRISON
Astronaut

SARA ROSE NORDGREN
A woman’s work

IAN CAPPELLI
Some Bugs Winter Well Inside of Wood
Studies of Regional Transformation:

KAMI ENZIE
Thumb War

KYLE OKEKE
The Box

STELLA WONG
Autorretrato

THEA BROWN
Employee Handbook

LYNN PEDERSEN
Pinpoint

ELIZABETH MARIE YOUNG
So What if Penguins Aren’t Important?

DANIEL BOUCHARD
Anne Whitney

MANDY GUTMANN-GONZALEZ
Examination of Mary Toothaker, Jealous
Witch

PHILLIP B. WILLIAMS
Paradise

FICTION

AIMEE BENDER
Ghost Baby

QUENTIN STEADMAN
Treasure

AMELIA GRAY
Savior
England

MATTHEW ROSSI
We Mingle with Wolves

KEITH PILAPIL LESMEISTER
Soap to the Elbows

J. S. BRYCH
How to Be His Plus-One

JIN ZHAO
Hug

NONFICTION

KIM GEK LIN SHORT
Magic and Loss in Tao Payoh

LAURA EVE ENGEL
Death Certificate

ED TAYLOR
Fire in a Box

PHILIP METRES
The Way

BENJAMIN CHARLES GERMAIN LEE
Year at the Museum

JACK CHRISTIAN
Three Meow Wolfs

TIFFANY TROY
On the Extraordinary

JULIE MARIE WADE
CliffsNotes for Horticulture

SU-YEE LIN
Tristate

SPENCER LANE JONES
On the Margin of a Psalm

CARRIE COGAN
Whoop  

INTERVIEW

DONNA STONECIPHER in
Conversation with CAMILLE GUTHRIE

COVER ART

JONATHAN KLINE