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
