Issue 27 | Fall 2022

April II

Réka Nyitrai

Deadheaded dandelions and your seed flowing. This is oblivion: bliss not yet congealed and my dummy heart pooling bundles of hope to be sold at a reduced price. Behind my ear a milliard of sharks. I close my eyes and imagine peeling the ocean from your mane. I cannot stop hearing the waves. In a champagne flute you offer me a ship and a pirate flag. Take me, I say, take me without mercy.

About the Author

Réka NyitraiRéka Nyitrai is a spell, a sparrow, a lioness’s tongue—a bird nest in a pool of dusk. She is the recipient of a Touchstone Distinguished Books Award for 2020 for her debut haiku volume While Dreaming Your Dreams (Valencia Spain: Mono Ya Mono Books, 2020).

Issue 27 Cover Art

Prose

Nonie in Excelsis (Excerpt from About Ed) Robert Glück

Dirk Julia Kohli, translated by Rob Myatt

Panthera onca Jasleena Grewal

The Border Solomon Samson

Tikibik Dominic Blewett

Mistake or Accident Laurie Stone

Excerpt from Mice 1961 Stacey Levine

The Cathedral of Desire Nina Schuyler

The Gorge James Warner

In This Case, He Killed an Innocent Person Carla Bessa, translated by Elton Uliana

A Chinese Temple in California Alvin Lu

Poetry

you have become an archive. Lorelei Bacht
thunderclouds

On the Things I Did at the End of the World Beatriz Rocha, translated by Grant Schutzman

April I Réka Nyitrai
April II

In this movie David C. Hall

Spot Rolla Barraq, translated by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp

Let There Exist For Us… Eva-Maria Sher

That I Would Cameron Morse
Surf

Cover Art

Image 001 Richard Hanus

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