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.

Issue 28 Cover

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 Evan Williams

every woman is a perfect gorgeous angel and every man is just some guy Sophie Bebeau

Big Tragedies, Little Tragedies & Listen to This David Wojciechowski

A Sudden Set of Stairs & Buy the Buoy Evan Nicholls

Hyde Lake, Memphis Ellis Elliott

Cover Art

A Different Recollection Than Yours Edward Lee

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