Issue 26 | Spring 2022

I Cloud the Moon

Lisa Williams

I cloud the moon. All’s condescension,

my thought of what you are becomes

a shape you just appear to be,

appear, then disappear. And what

I am not crowds your vision too.

Somebody’s made in someone’s vision,

a wax and wane of eyes, of mind.

I do not want to cloud facts, cloud

a person, but I want it, too.

Stay inside me, shattered vision.

Stay me, moon. I make it up.

We make it up, then disappear,

one body in another’s vision,

each a cloud, unrhymed.

About the Author

Lisa Williams has poems in New England Review and Ecotone. She has published three books of poems and lives in Kentucky, where she also serves as series editor for the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose series. She teaches creative writing.

The Cover of Issue 26.

Prose

The Golden Hops Alberto Ortiz De Zarate, translated by Whitni Battle

The Woman in the Murder House Darlene Eliot

Excerpt from Eva Nara Vidal, translated by Emyr Humphreys

Three Propositions of the White Wind Luna Sicat-Cleto, translated by Bernard Capinpin

Iron Cloud Suzana Stojanović

Buffalo Siamak Vossoughi

The First Ghost I Ever Saw Was Marshall Moore

The Lion Farhad Pirbal, translated by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse and Jiyar Homer

The Good Man James Miller
The Teacher
Woodwork
My Wife Was Drunk at Hobby Lobby

Oranges; Charcoal Michele Kilmer

Ode to Zheka Olga Krause, translated by Grace Sewell

Padre de Familia John Rey Dave Aquino

Excerpt from Dictionary John M. Kuhlman

Gospel of Mary Michael Garcia Bertrand

Poetry

There are No Salvageable Parts Benjamin Niespodziany
Sunday in the Woods

You Is Not the Room Lisa Williams
I Cloud the Moon

Lost Creek Cave Anna B. Sutton

Excerpt from “Hehasnoname” Sharron Hass, translated by Marcela Sulak

Moon Talk Steve Davenport
The Son of a Bitch of Hope After

Cover Art

The Gargoyle of the Notre-Dame Cathedral Paris Zee Zee

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