Issue 28 | Spring 2023
As Beautiful As It Is
Evan Williams
I allow that you may carry me upon your back while it is that we walk. I will hold equally onto everything in my life and in yours. The turtle in the dirt says that we are like a turtle and thus we eat the turtle and are thereafter more like it than before. The simulation of responsibility must be responsibly simulated. The sky at which I look up is as beautiful as it is supposed to be. The ocean is today the name of the world’s largest salt sculpture gallery. Most look like clouds looking at clouds.
About the Author
Evan Williams is a Queer, Chicago-based writer interested in the collision of Surrealism, masculinity, and the Anthropocene. Their work can be found in DIAGRAM, Pleaides, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. Evan can be found on Twitter @evansquilliams.
Prose
Excerpt from Marriage Marina Mariasch, translated by Ellen Jones
Torch Song of Myself Dale Peck
The House Nikki Barnhart
Excerpt from Fishflies: the Men of the Riverhouse Marream Krollos
The Chinkhoswe J.G. Jesman
Tijuana Victoria Ballesteros
Agónico Marcial, 1960 - 1994 Israel Bonilla
Excerpt from Fieldwork Vilde Fastvold, translated by Wendy H. Gabrielsen
Reflections in a Window Cástulo Aceves, translated by Michael Langdon
The Waiting Dreamer Blue Neustifter
It Being Fall Matthew Roberson
Plans for a Project Bo Huston
Poetry
As Beautiful As It Is
every woman is a perfect gorgeous angel and every man is just some guy
Big Tragedies, Little Tragedies &
A Sudden Set of Stairs &
Hyde Lake, Memphis
Cover Art
A Different Recollection Than Yours Edward Lee